We condemn ongoing repression and violence against peaceful protesters in Tbilisi, who are standing against the reintroduction of a restrictive “foreign agents” law.

The undersigned organisations call on Saudi Arabia’s authorities to immediately lift the illegal travel ban imposed on woman human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul. A court-imposed ban on her ...

More than 50 human rights organizations from around the world signed a letter in solidarity with Georgian civil society, condemning the efforts of the Georgian government to introduce the law on the ...

The awardees were recognized at Freedom House’s annual awards dinner.

In March 2024, National Security Agency (NSA) officials threatened to place Mohamed Adel in solitary confinement or transfer him to a different prison with notoriously cruel detention conditions, in ...

Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies. The United States, with its strong rule-of-law tradition and independent judicial institutions, is entirely capable of ...

Once democratic institutions have been dismantled by rigged elections, coups, or power grabs, it is difficult—though not impossible—to reconstruct them. Global freedom has declined for 18 consecutive ...

With former president Donald Trump facing criminal charges in four separate federal and state cases, much has been said about the “unprecedented” nature of this moment: never before has a US president ...

Ahead of his departure, Freedom House’s president reflects on the courage of democracy defenders and his hope for the future. Tomorrow will be my last day as president of Freedom House. It will be a ...