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

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 ...

We are writing to request that the government of Morocco immediately release human rights defender Nasser Zefzafi on humanitarian grounds so he can care for his elderly father, who was recently ...

Freedom House worked to assist civil society to defend and advance fundamental freedoms and rights enshrined in Turkey’s national and international obligations.

Sri Lanka has experienced improvements in political rights and civil liberties since 2015, and elections in recent years have generally been considered free and fair. The Election Commission of Sri ...

Voters in the United Kingdom (UK)—which includes the constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales along with the territory of Northern Ireland—will head to the polls on July 4, 2024, for the ...

See the Election Watch 2024 score and learn about democracy and freedom in United States.

TNR Watch provides monthly updates on the growing global threat of transnational repression.

Legal cases against former heads of state are commonplace in healthy democracies. The United States, with its strong rule-of-law tradition and independent judicial institutions, is entirely capable of ...

In this issue: How the Clubhouse app’s crack in the Great Firewall highlighted Chinese netizen’s isolation from global users; new restrictive rules for journalists, celebrities, and social media users ...

WASHINGTON—The Azerbaijani regime engaged in ethnic cleansing against the ethnic Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to a report released today from an international fact-finding ...

Digital technology helped spur historic protests for racial justice. But now it is being weaponized to undermine basic rights.