Transnational repression threatens security and human rights. The more we know about who is committing it and how, the better we can fight to end it.

Freedom House recorded more than 1,200 incidents of physical transnational repression during the last decade. WASHINGTON—In 2024, 23 governments reached across borders to silence exiled political ...

On January 28, the conviction of journalist Safiye Alagaş, former news editor for the pro-Kurdish JINNEWS, resulted in a six years and three months prison sentence. Alagaş has already spent a year in ...

Censorship and surveillance Harassment and detentions Hong Kong Beyond China ...

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Laura Schroeder is Deputy Director, Policy and Advocacy focusing on countering transnational repression. In this role, she engages with democratic governments around the world to bolster their ...

Freedom House supports Ukrainian civil society in providing effective public oversight of the activities of the Ukrainian government law-enforcement and security services. Freedom House supports ...

Trump’s pardons and sentence commutations for January 6 attackers aim to excuse a violent assault on a key element of ...

While the release of prisoners is a step in the right direction, the Cuban regime’s broader human rights abuses remain deeply troubling.

Tsi Conrad, a Cameroonian journalist who has been unjustly imprisoned since December 2016, is hopeful that President Donald Trump will continue to call out the Biya regime’s abuses and push for ...

Hong Kong Prodemocracy activist convicted of rioting: A Hong Kong court convicted seven men of rioting, including former democratic lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, the Hong Kong Free Press reported on ...