Khattak has remained imprisoned for more than half a decade for his efforts to defend Pakistan’s Pashtun ethnic minority from persecution.

A CDM analysis of 2,970 Douyin posts about protest in China published from June to December 2025 found that two-thirds had been deleted. The highest rates of censorship are associated with posts about ...

Repressive regimes throughout the world deploy the machinery of the state to silence criticism and dissent. It is therefore hardly surprising that artists—whose creative work can expose, ridicule, and ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people. Freedom House Appoints Jamie Fly as Chief Executive ...

We Relaunched the China Dissent Monitor. Now Help Sustain It. Thanks to supporters like you, this critical project is back online. But keeping it running requires ongoing funding. Stand with those ...

To track the different ways in which governments seek to dominate the digital sphere, Freedom House monitors their application of nine Key Internet Controls. Select from the drop-down menu in the map ...

The ratings are based on a scale of 1 to 7, with 7 representing the highest level of democratic progress and 1 the lowest. The Democracy Score is an average of ratings for the categories tracked in a ...

Rwandan transnational repression is exceptionally broad in terms of tactics, targets, and geographic reach. Rwandan transnational repression is exceptionally broad in terms of tactics, targets, and ...

A country or territory’s Freedom in the World status depends on its aggregate Political Rights score, on a scale of 0–40, and its aggregate Civil Liberties score, on a scale of 0–60. See the ...

The Russian government conducts highly aggressive transnational repression activities abroad. The Russian government conducts highly aggressive transnational repression activities abroad. Its campaign ...

Scores are based on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). See the methodology and report acknowledgements. Internet freedom improved in Malaysia, due to the unblocking of local and ...