Guatemala: International organizations demand freedom for Jose Rubén Zamora and urgent guarantees of due process ...

Courageous rights defenders are jailed all over the world for speaking truth to power. Freedom House documents their cases ...

Ali AlHajee is a Bahraini human rights defender and former political prisoner who was imprisoned in Bahrain for more than ten years until his release in June 2023.

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Violence and the repression of political opponents ...

Conditions in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine were assessed in a single report for the first time in the 2025 edition of Freedom in the World. While previous editions assessed Crimea and ...

Vladimir Putin and his enablers must be held accountable for violations of international law and national sovereignty.

China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world. China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of ...

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International students, visiting scholars, and faculty in the United States are being targeted by foreign governments and their agents. Tactics of transnational repression on campuses include digital ...

Digital tools make it easier than ever for authoritarian governments to control, silence, and punish dissent across borders. Digital technologies have given authoritarian governments new tools to ...