WASHINGTON—Today, the McCain Institute, George W. Bush Institute, and Freedom House called on the United States and European allies to impose restrictions and sanctions on Georgian Dream officials and ...

Ahead of the sixth anniversary of his arrest, Freedom House is honored to publish a letter authored by Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender.

We condemn ongoing repression and violence against peaceful protesters in Tbilisi, who are standing against the reintroduction of a restrictive “foreign agents” law.

More than 50 human rights organizations from around the world signed a letter in solidarity with Georgian civil society, condemning the efforts of the Georgian government to introduce the law on the ...

In March 2024, National Security Agency (NSA) officials threatened to place Mohamed Adel in solitary confinement or transfer him to a different prison with notoriously cruel detention conditions, in ...

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 ...

With former president Donald Trump facing criminal charges in four separate federal and state cases, much has been said about the “unprecedented” nature of this moment: never before has a US president ...

Once democratic institutions have been dismantled by rigged elections, coups, or power grabs, it is difficult—though not impossible—to reconstruct them. Global freedom has declined for 18 consecutive ...

The undersigned organisations call on Saudi Arabia’s authorities to immediately lift the illegal travel ban imposed on woman human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul. A court-imposed ban on her ...