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 ...

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, are extremely concerned by developments threatening the safety and wellbeing of detained feminist and fitness instructor Manahel al-Otaibi. On 14 April ...

Dr. Wang Bingzhang is a Chinese prodemocracy activist unjustly imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party since 2002. Wang, one of the first Chinese nationals to earn a doctorate overseas, set aside a ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy restricts almost all political rights and civil liberties. No officials at the national level are elected. The regime relies on pervasive surveillance, the ...

Five decades of country-by-country analysis in Freedom in the World has confirmed a remarkable fact: once countries earn the designation of Free, they tend to keep it. Freedom in the World evaluates ...

Alexis L. Schuler is vice president for communications and advocacy and has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of politics and policy in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Freedom ...