Nicolás Maduro’s removal offers a unique opportunity for a democratic transition in Venezuela. The United States and other democracies should support the Venezuelan people in their demands for truth, ...

Freedom House experts urge the United States to raise the release of political prisoners, Taiwan, transnational repression, ...

The people of Iran should be able to freely determine their country's future.

The future of Iran belongs to the Iranian people. Iran’s path forward must reflect the will of the Iranian people, who have ...

Freedom House recorded 126 new incidents of physical, direct transnational repression during the year, bringing the total ...

In a Q&A with Freedom House, Abdulhakim Idris, head of the Center for Uyghur Studies, discusses his work exposing the Chinese ...

Six new governments—those of Afghanistan, Benin, Georgia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe—were identified for the first time as ...

Nicaragua’s political rights rating declined from 4 to 5, its civil liberties rating declined from 3 to 4, and it received a downward trend arrow due to a court’s ouster of the leader of the main ...

South Africa hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and diaspora members, largely from other African countries. South Africa hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, ...

Human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng is expected to be released on 13 April after completing a three-year sentence following his baseless conviction for “inciting subversion of state power”. We, the ...

In this issue: China’s censors aim to contain dissent during harsh COVID-19 lockdowns as Xi Jinping propaganda is boosted ahead of party congress. Meanwhile, social media platforms reveal users IP ...

Each scorecard below features a country’s Freedom in the World rating and score, Freedom on the Net rating and score (where applicable), and areas of concern in political rights and civil liberties ...