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 ...

Libya’s political rights rating declined from 6 to 7 due to wide-ranging problems associated with the ongoing political and security crisis, including overdue elections and the lack of a fully ...

Phumelele Mncina was the 2024-25 Freedom in the World Junior Fellow for West, Central, and Southern Africa. She graduated from St. Olaf College in 2024 with a B.A. in Political Science and Race and ...

Amid a years-long decline in global freedom, demands for fundamental rights and accountable governance are growing more urgent. Entrenched autocratic leaders recognize popular resistance as a threat ...

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 ...

Of all the Arab states that experienced popular uprisings and political upheaval in 2011, Tunisia alone navigated the crisis through civil debate, free elections, and constructive negotiations. But ...

The Saudi Arabian government is perhaps the best known in the world for targeting its nationals abroad. The Saudi Arabian government is perhaps the best known in the world for targeting its nationals ...

Five decades of country-by-country analysis in Freedom in the World has confirmed a remarkable fact: once countries earn the designation of Free, they tend to keep it. Freedom in the World evaluates ...

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