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

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

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

WASHINGTON—The Freedom House Executive Board, chaired by Norman Willox, today announced that it has selected Gerardo Berthin and Annie Boyajian to serve as Freedom House’s new presidents. Berthin and ...

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

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.

Introduction. Transnational repression unexpectedly became an important issue in Canada’s 2025 federal election. During the campaign, candidates from two major parties, the Liberal Party of Canada and ...

This special report documents how ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh were intentionally subjected to regular attacks, intimidation, deprivation of basic rights and adequate living conditions, and ...

Blocking websites and deleting unwanted information. To suppress unfavorable health statistics, critical reporting, and other COVID-19 content, governments in at least 28 of the 65 countries assessed ...

The Turkish state’s current campaign of transnational repression is remarkable for its intensity, its geographic reach, and the suddenness with which it escalated. The Turkish regime has pursued its ...

This special report details how the Belarusian regime displaces, indoctrinates, reeducates, and militarizes Ukrainian children in the service of the broader Russian state policy of eradicating ...