Skip to main content
Accessibility

NEW | Free Them All: A Political Prisoners Initiative

Freedom House Logo - Torch next to words Freedom House

Primary Navigation

  • Our Issues
  • Perspectives
  • Policy Recommendations
  • Explore the Map
Expanding Freedom and Democracy

Quicklinks

  • Events
  • Perspectives Blog
  • Find A Country
  • Explore The Map
  • Careers

Mega Menu

  • Our Issues
    • Authoritarian Reach
    • Technology & Democracy
    • Promoting U.S. Leadership
    • Democracies in Decline
    • Election Integrity
    • Equality & Human Rights
    • Government Accountability & Transparency
    • Strengthening Civil Society
    • Media Freedom
    • Religious Freedom
    • Freedom of Expression
    • Freedom of Assembly
    • Democracy During Pandemic
  • Programs
    • Afghanistan Human Rights Coordination Mechanism
    • Political Prisoners Initiative
    • Regional Programs
    • Emergency Assistance and Thematic Programs
  • Countries
  • Events
    • Reimagining American Democracy
  • Policy Recommendations
    • Testimony and Advocacy Letters
  • Reports
    • Freedom in the World
    • Freedom on the Net
    • Nations in Transit
    • Beijing’s Global Media Influence
    • China Media Bulletin
    • Hong Kong Media Bulletin
    • China Dissent Monitor
    • Election Watch for the Digital Age
    • Transnational Repression
    • Archives
  • Perspectives Blog
  • News Releases & Statements
  • About Us
    • History
    • Our Experts
    • Board and Leadership
    • Ways to Give
    • Financials
    • Careers
    • Contact Us
  • Manage Subscriptions
Getty internet freedom image

Expanding Freedom and Democracy

Iran Protest
#IRANSOLIDARITY

A Call to Strengthen Support for Protesters in Iran

LEARN MORE

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

 Free Them All: A Political Prisoners Initiative

Free Them All: A Political Prisoners Initiative

Free Them All: A Political Prisoners Initiative is a new Freedom House project intended to help free political prisoners and push back against the jailing of activists as a tool of repression. Located around the globe, the stories of these artists, journalists, and activists illustrate the significant pressures and harms that human rights defenders and pro-democracy activists face in reprisal for their work and why they need our support.

Learn More
Explore Map

Tracking Democracy and Freedom Around the World

Explore Our Interactive Map
Women show their voter ID cards as the queue at the polling station during the Nigerian general elections in February 2019.

Election Watch: Nigeria

Nigeria will host one of its most high-stakes elections in decades on February 25, 2023. Freedom House's Election Watch team previews the unique threats facing this election, the biggest among them the violent activities of several non-state armed groups who have publicly expressed a wish to scupper the country’s vulnerable democracy.

Read More
Chengdu, Sichuan / China - January 30, 2019: a screen at shopping district showing the broadcaster wearing a mask to host a news show regarding coronavirus.

Introducing the China Dissent Monitor

Despite increasingly repressive rule under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), dissent in China occurs regularly and is geographically widespread, according to new analysis by Freedom House. The first edition of the China Dissent Monitor recorded 668 instances of dissent in China from June to September 2022, as people spoke out against stalled housing projects, labor rights violations, fraud, COVID-19 policies, and state violence, among other grievances. 

Read More

Our Issues

Humanitarian activists hold a poster with a picture of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist who was killed in Turkey. Makassar, Indonesia. 18 October 2018. Editorial credit: Herwin Bahar / Shutterstock.com

Authoritarian Reach

coronavirus ukraine military officers testing

Democracy during Pandemic

Men using their mobile phones on a sidewalk. Johannesburg, South Africa. Editorial credit:  Sunshine Seeds / Shutterstock.com

Technology & Democracy

Hungarian people living in the English city marched silently through the streets in a show of solidarity with protesters in Hungary.  Bristol, England. 16 December 2018. Editorial credit: tviolet / Shutterstock.com

Democracies in Decline

United States Capitol Building. Washington, DC. Editorial credit: Darryl Brooks / Shutterstock.comL:

Promoting U.S. Leadership

A man inserts the inserts a voted ballot into the ballot box. Puglia, Italy. 26 May 2019. Editorial Credit: Editorial credit: Massimo Todaro / Shutterstock.com

Election Integrity

Two young indigenous men protesting holding banner "Stop the indigenous genocide", in march for the rights of the indigenous people.  São Paulo, Brazil. 1 January 2019. Editorial Credit: PARALAXIS / Shutterstock.com

Equality & Human Rights

Memorial to murdered journalist Daphne Carunana Galizia. Valletta, Malta. 16 November 2019. Editorial credit: Paul Mendoza / Shutterstock.com

Media Freedom

Detail of a copy of the Constitution of Venezuela. In the hands of a demonstrator against the government of Nicolás Maduro.  Venezuela.  Decmeber 2016. Editorial credit:  StringerAL / Shutterstock.com

Government Accountability & Transparency

Nanette Castillo, mother of a victim of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.  The Hague, Netherlands. 24 September 2019.  Editorial credit: Jofelle Tesorio / Shutterstock.com

Strengthening Civil Society

Police confrontation with civilians, as people are trying to get to the protest on Tverskaya Street.  Moscow, Russia. 27 July, 2019. Editorial credit:  Aleksandr Beliakov / Shutterstock.com

Freedom of Assembly

Teenaged man with taped mouth protesting censorship at demonstration against a new copyright law by European Union, "Artikel 13." Erfurt, Germany. 23 March 2019. Editorial credit:  Timo Nausch / Shutterstock.com

Freedom of Expression

Two indian muslim women with poster protests against controversial anti-muslim Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB CAA).  Mumbai, India. 19 December 2019. Editorial credit:  arun sambhu mishra / Shutterstock.com

Religious Freedom

Latest Updates

Freedom House

More than 480 Global Voices Call on International Community to Strengthen Support for Protesters in Iran 

Press release

February 1, 2023

TikTok

A TikTok Trend You Can’t Ignore: Addressing the Risks by Protecting Privacy and Bolstering Transparency

Perspectives

February 2, 2023
Public media filming

Securing a Vibrant Future for the World’s Public Broadcasters

Perspectives

January 26, 2023

In the Media

forbes logo

China’s Movie Censorship: ‘Black Panther’ And ‘Ant Man’ Sequels Approved After Past Marvel Films—And ‘Top Gun’—Were Banned opens in new tab

January 20, 2023

new york times logo

Glimpses of Democracy opens in new tab

December 9, 2022

TIME magazine logo

Protests Against Zero-COVID Are Rocking China. Here’s What You Need to Know opens in new tab

November 28, 2022

Be the first to know what's happening.

Join the Freedom House weekly newsletter

Subscribe

Footer Main Menu

  • Our Issues
  • Countries
  • Policy Recommendations
  • Explore the Map
  • Donate
  • News & Perspectives
  • Reports
  • Events
  • About
  • Careers

Address

1850 M St. NW Floor 11
Washington, DC 20036

(202) 296-5101

General Inquiries

[email protected]

Press & Media

[email protected]

Footer Social Menu

Follow

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Footer

  • Manage Subscriptions
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Content Permissions
  • Site Map
@2023 FreedomHouse