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

Two other prominent human rights defenders, Mohammed al-Qahtani – another ACPRA co-founder – and Essa al-Nukheifi, were held arbitrarily for more than two years beyond their prison terms before being ...

On July 31, 2025, PEN America and 10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey ...

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 ...

Freedom House is founded on the core conviction that freedom flourishes in democratic nations where governments are accountable to their people.

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet. Anti-censorship and encrypted tools are lifelines for ...

Freedom House helps citizens defend their rights against government abuses in several countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

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

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