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 ...

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 ...

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

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.

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 ...

The two countries should build on recent progress by coordinating cross-agency efforts and strengthening resilience among targeted diaspora communities. Today, Freedom House released two reports that ...

Perspectives May 21, 2025 Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Built on AI Surveillance and Disregard for Due Process ...

The former Royal Mint in London, where the Chinese government hopes to construct a new "super embassy." Rights advocates fear the new embassy would enable Beijing's campaign of transnational ...

Around the world, autocrats are detaining, prosecuting, and imprisoning legal and judicial professionals as part of a larger assault on the rule of law.

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 ...

WASHINGTON—Political violence and manipulation of elections, ongoing armed conflicts, and deepening repression in 2024 resulted in the 19th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, according to ...