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

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 ...

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 ...

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

As the Insider’s analysis reveals, the Kremlin is using criminal associates as proxies to perpetrate transnational repression against its exiled opponents. In both incidents, Russian intelligence ...

Pakistani voters and opposition parties successfully pushed back against electoral interference by authorities both before ...

In advance of Vietnam’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Freedom House joins Vietnamese and international human rights organizations to shine a spotlight on the continuing human rights violations in ...

Then there are those whose fate after speaking out against Xi is simply unknown. In October 2022, when China was still under the CCP’s draconian COVID-19 lockdown, a man whose name netizens believe to ...

How much of a threat does digital authoritarianism pose to Western societies? And what policies are in place in the EU and United States to counter it? Authoritarian regimes have gone to great lengths ...