Khattak has remained imprisoned for more than half a decade for his efforts to defend Pakistan’s Pashtun ethnic minority from persecution.

In recent months, the Pakistani government has increased its legal harassment of exiled journalists and dissidents. Additionally, there are signs that UK authorities are treating recent acts of ...

In this issue: Xi Jinping’s vision for party media control, the CCP purges outspoken social-media commentators, and further penalties for online activists. Curse of "Zhiqiang": This photo of Chinese ...

Far-right groups are growing in prominence and sophistication across Eurasia, particularly in countries where notable democratic and liberalizing reforms have taken place. These movements have emerged ...

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 ...

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Media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade. In some of the most influential democracies in the world, populist leaders have overseen concerted attempts to throttle the ...

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Scores are based on a scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free). See the methodology and report acknowledgements. Internet freedom in Armenia has improved since the Velvet Revolution swept Prime ...

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 ...

China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world. China conducts the most sophisticated, global, and comprehensive campaign of ...