On July 31, 2025, PEN America and 10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey ...

International attention helped Mubarak Bala survive his incarceration for discussing humanism and religion online.

July 29 marks 1,095 days since the beginning of the arbitrary detention of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico and one of the most prominent voices in journalism in Guatemala and ...

We are writing to request that the government of Morocco immediately release human rights defender Nasser Zefzafi on humanitarian grounds so he can care for his elderly father, who was recently ...

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Sri Lanka has experienced improvements in political rights and civil liberties since 2015, and elections in recent years have generally been considered free and fair. The Election Commission of Sri ...

Voters in the United Kingdom (UK)—which includes the constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales along with the territory of Northern Ireland—will head to the polls on July 4, 2024, for the ...

See the Election Watch 2024 score and learn about democracy and freedom in United States.

An uptick in transnational repression perpetrated by the Iranian government against Persian-language journalists underscores the vulnerability of media outlets operating from exile and the need for ...

Access Freedom House reports on Saudi Arabia, see recent news and perspectives, and learn about our work in the country.

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