Freedom House recorded more than 1,200 incidents of physical transnational repression during the last decade. WASHINGTON—In 2024, 23 governments reached across borders to silence exiled political ...
On January 28, the conviction of journalist Safiye Alagaş, former news editor for the pro-Kurdish JINNEWS, resulted in a six years and three months prison sentence. Alagaş has already spent a year in ...
The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom. For the 10th consecutive year, users have experienced an ...
The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system, a strong rule-of-law tradition, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief, and a wide array of ...
The Freedom on the Net index measures each country’s level of internet freedom based on a set of methodology questions. The methodology is developed in consultation with international experts to ...
A major terrorist attack by Hamas on Israeli territory in October 2023 triggered a massive Israeli military response in Gaza, resulting in thousands of deaths, the internal displacement of nearly the ...
Freedom House is led by Interim Copresidents Annie Wilcox Boyajian and Gerardo Berthin. The daily work of the organization is conducted by its approximately 300 staff members in Washington, New York, ...
Thank you for your interest in Freedom House’s work championing democracy. This page answers some of the most frequently asked questions Freedom House receives regarding the use of Freedom House ...