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 ...

Democracies, as a matter of their own survival, must demonstrate basic solidarity and prevent the outright conquest of other free societies by authoritarian powers. With each year of global decline in ...

The 52nd edition of Freedom in the World finds that 60 countries experienced declines in their political rights and civil liberties, while only 34 registered improvements. WASHINGTON—Political ...

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

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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 ...

Thai authorities should not forcibly return Uyghur asylum seekers to China. Thailand does not recognize the status of refugees or asylum seekers and has signed neither the UN Refugee Convention nor ...