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 ...

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation’s gift will help Freedom House continue its efforts to inform, mobilize, and support the fight for freedom and democracy.

Two other prominent human rights defenders, Mohammed al-Qahtani – another ACPRA co-founder – and Essa al-Nukheifi, were held arbitrarily for more than two years beyond their prison terms before being ...

On July 31, 2025, PEN America and 10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey ...

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet. Anti-censorship and encrypted tools are lifelines for ...

International attention helped Mubarak Bala survive his incarceration for discussing humanism and religion online.

July 29 marks 1,095 days since the beginning of the arbitrary detention of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico and one of the most prominent voices in journalism in Guatemala and ...

Four legal experts weigh in on two cases at the United States Supreme Court that could alter how the internet functions, how it is governed, and how users engage with it.

Today, Freedom House released a special report, From Crisis to Reform: A Call to Strengthen America’s Battered Democracy, which identifies three enduring problems that have undermined the health of ...

A total of 25 countries’ governments were responsible for 125 incidents of physical transnational repression last year, including the first documented cases perpetrated by the governments of Cuba, the ...

WASHINGTON—The Azerbaijani regime engaged in ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to a report released today from an international fact-finding ...