Top Ten Dictators Still In Power As Of August 2018

These Are The Meanest And Nastiest Dictators Still In Power As Of August 2018.
NOTE: Past Actions From Other Years Apply To This List
The Top Ten
1 Kim Jong-un (North Korea) Kim Jong-un (born 8 January 1983) is a North Korean politician who has been Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is a son of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's second supreme leader from 1994 to 2011, and Ko Yong-hui. He is a grandson ...read more.

Dictator Of North Korea Since 2011
No Explanation Here

At least he isn't a threat to the US anymore

Did someone say Human Rights Violations?!?!?

Did you see the movie Team America?

2 Bashar al-Assad (Syria) Bashar Hafez al-Assad is the current President of Syria, holding the office since 17 July 2000. He is also commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces, General Secretary of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Regional Secretary of the party's branch in Syria.

Dictator Of Syria Since 2000
Uses Chemical Weapons Against HIS OWN PEOPLE!
Absolutely Disgusting.

He's a psychopathic liar.

Ugly, and brutal

3 Ali Khamenei (Iran) Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei (born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia Marja' and the second and current supreme leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Dictator Of Iran Since 1989

It Is Illegal To Insult Or Slightly Criticize Him, Rules Iran With An Iron Fist, Constantly Threatens Isreal, Supports Assad.

4 Nicolas Maduro (Venezuela) Nicolás Maduro Moros is a Venezuelan politician who has served as the 63rd President of Venezuela since 2013 and previously served under President Hugo Chávez as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2013 and as Vice President of Venezuela from 2012 to 2013.

Dictator Of Venezuela Since 2013
Rigged The 2018 Elections In The Country, Treats His People Like Crap, Venezuela Continues To Get More Poverty Stricken And Crime Ridden And He Does NOTHING About It!

He was actually almost assassinated a few days ago.

His downfall is coming though.

But he will soon go hopefully.

5 Vladimir Putin (Russia) Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008. He was also the prime minister from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. ...read more.
6 Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus) Aleksandr Grigoryevich Lukashenko is the first, and so far the only President of Belarus, having been in office since 20 July 1994. Before launching his political career, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm and spent time with the Soviet Border Troops and the Soviet Army. ...read more.

Dictator Of Belarus Since 1994
Silences His Opponents And Has Them Beaten Up, Rigs Elections, You Can't Criticize Him Without Getting Beaten Up By His Secret Police, Peaceful Demonstrations Broken Up By Violent Police Officers.

7 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey)

He already lost in Istanbul and Ankara and I doubt whether his career will last longer, although there isn't any strong opponent to him at this moment

I don't want him to ruin Turkey, we don't want new Ottoman Empire.

8 Emomali Rahmon (Tajikistan)

Dictator Of Tajikistan Since 1992
He Banned Beards, Banned YouTube Over A Video Of Him Dancing At His Son's Wedding In 2013, Banned Celebrating Birthdays In Public, Rigs Elections.

Why would you ban the public birthday parties and beards? Makes absolutely no sense

9 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (Turkmenistan)

Dictator Of Turkmenistan Since 2006
Not As Bad Or Crazy Like His Predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov, But Still Pretty Bad By Rigging Elections, Silencing His Opponents, Violations Of Human Rights, Banned Black Cars, etc.

... of Turkmenistan

10 Omar Al-Bashir (Sudan) Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is a Sudanese politician who served as the seventh president of Sudan and head of the National Congress Party from 1989 to 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état. He was incarcerated, tried, and convicted of multiple corruption charges.

Dictator Of Sudan Since 1989
Has An International Arrest Warrant From The International Criminal Court, Rules Over Sudan With An Iron Fist.

He has now been overthrown, epic.

The Contenders
11 Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan)

Dictator Of Azerbaijan Since 2003
Rigs Elections, Violates Human Rights, Silences His Opponents, etc.

12 Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan)

UPDATE: No longer in power.

13 Viktor Orbán (Hungary)

This guy is getting worse each year.

14 Xi Jinping (China)
15 King Salman (Saudi Arabia)
16 Bounnhang Vorachith (Laos)
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