The International Day of Political Prisoners originated in the Soviet Union in 1974, when political prisoners collectively held a one-day hunger strike. Soviet prisoners of conscience repeated this ...

However, businesses are increasingly recognizing that they have a role to play in pushing back against authoritarian rule. Since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, more than 1 ...

A Hungarian author, professor, and diplomat, Haraszti has dedicated his career to strengthening human rights and supporting ...

Freedom House has been tracking how governments across the world, over the past two decades, have increasingly used ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Gerardo Berthin and Annie Boyajian Selected as New ...

The recent abduction of a Beninese journalist from a conference in Côte d’Ivoire demonstrates how transnational repression (TNR) can imperil refugees. Sossoukpè had traveled to Côte d’Ivoire for a ...

Citizens in China are speaking out when their rights are violated. Freedom House’s China Dissent Monitor analyzes these protest actions—often uncovering broader trends in China’s politics and economy ...

President Noboa was elected to fight spiraling gang violence, but serious abuses are being reported under his crackdown. Noboa’s emergency declaration in 2024 followed a years-long security breakdown ...

Around the world, autocrats are detaining, prosecuting, and imprisoning legal and judicial professionals as part of a larger assault on the rule of law. In January 2025, a Russian court sentenced ...

This article was first published on Just Security. As Sudan marks two years since the eruption of war between rival military factions—the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

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 ...

Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it. Transnational repression—the tactics used by ...