Lawmakers quietly slip language into budget bill that would drastically weaken public records law, giving police and ...

Under the control of the Stasi East Germany was the most repressive police state in the history of the world. Yet it managed to convince the West that it was being progressive. Here is the story ...

Meanwhile at home in East Germany, for those protesters who ... Even after the fall of the Wall, the lurking power of the Stasi, the secret police, remained. East Germans continued to demonstrate ...

Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear ...

During this time, he had many interactions with East German officials from the secret police, called the Stasi. While the KGB documents about Putin were destroyed, or taken back to the USSR, many of ...

Parties that, by their aims or by the behavior of their members, tend to distort or eliminate the fundamental system of ...

Punk rockers in former East Germany were seen by the secret police, the Stasi, as a subversive anti-government force. Now more than 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chaos, who was part ...

It's a significant fall from grace for BFC Dynamo, ten-time Oberliga champions, three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi. And yet ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, records of East Germany's secret police are uncovered. The Stasi archives reveal surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed ...