There should be no normalization of US-Georgia relations until Georgian authorities release those detained or imprisoned for ...

WASHINGTON—Freedom House is pleased to announce that journalist Margaret Hoover and former US Ambassador to Hungary David ...

In this issue: As Beijing cracks down on foreign firms, politicized prosecutions are a growing blight on Chinese society. Regulatory changes affect academic databases and chatbots, while US ...

Five experts reflect on the opposition Tisza party’s resounding victory in the Hungarian election, how the new government should move forward, and what democracy’s defenders can learn. In 2014, ...

In a Q&A with Freedom House, Abdulhakim Idris, head of the Center for Uyghur Studies, discusses his work exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s repression and how Chinese authorities have menaced him ...

Six new governments—those of Afghanistan, Benin, Georgia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe—were identified for the first time as using transnational repression tactics. WASHINGTON—Thirty governments ...

Czech Republic: Lubomír Kopeček, Associate Professor of Political Science and Vice-head of the International Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno ...

In this issue: China’s censors aim to contain dissent during harsh COVID-19 lockdowns as Xi Jinping propaganda is boosted ahead of party congress. Meanwhile, social media platforms reveal users IP ...

Co-Chairman Smith, Co-Chairman McGovern, and esteemed members of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, thank you for organizing this important hearing. I appreciate the opportunity to testify before ...

The future of internet freedom will depend on how governments regulate and deploy the next wave of artificial intelligence and other rapidly evolving technologies. “Global internet freedom has ...

Starting in the summer of 2024, internet users in Pakistan experienced something mysterious. Messages to friends and family on WhatsApp, the most popular social media platform in the country, often ...

Freedom House has been tracking how governments across the world, over the past two decades, have increasingly used regulations, laws, and discrediting narratives to restrict civic space and the ...