Police brutality in Peru ("police and the armed forces have been granted a 'license to kill' demonstrators")

High-level corruption in Malaysia ("a $681 million payment made to what is believed to be [Prime Minister] Najib's personal bank account")

Fascism in the Ukraine (key militia led by "a political figure that is often described as an extremist, ultranationalist and fascist")

Prison overcrowding and police murder sprees in Brazil ("overcrowded, violent and brutalizing"; "every year Brazil's police are responsible for at least 2,000 deaths")

Imprisonment of a publisher in Zimbabwe for running articles the government disliked ("convicted of publishing a newspaper in a southern town without government permission")

Arrests of Muslims for their political views throughout Europe (where Hamad studied) and outlawing of BDS activism in France

Devastating mistreatment of migrant workers and outlawing of homosexuality (with a little-used death penalty) by Qatar (for whose media outlet, al-Araby, Hamad writes)