The country’s authoritarian regime continues to hold more than 1,100 political prisoners in abusive conditions.

Freedom House research has found that exiles living in more than 100 countries have been targeted with assassinations, abductions, assaults, and other brutal transnational repression tactics.

"The Russian Federation actively, without wasting time, destroyed all dissent, activism, journalism, and justice in Crimea. .

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet.

Idris Khattak has been imprisoned for more than five years for his work defending Pakistan’s Pashtun ethnic minority from ...

Fostering democratic progress abroad is a cost-effective way to improve regional and global security and reduce the ...

Even as Americans remain committed to the ideals of democracy, a majority see democracy in the United States as weak and getting weaker, according to a national survey jointly commissioned by Freedom ...

On June 10, FactWire announced that it was shutting down with immediate effect, becoming the 10th Hong Kong news organization to close in less than 12 months. It had used an innovative crowdfunding ...

Conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh were examined in a separate report through the 2024 edition of Freedom in the World, in which the territory’s status declined from Partly Free to Not Free due to an ...

Freedom of the Press provides analytical reports and numerical scores for 199 countries and territories, continuing a process conducted by Freedom House since 1980. Each country and territory is given ...