EDITORIAL. After a law was passed increasing penalties against LGBT people in March, convictions have surged across Senegal.

In Afghanistan, distrustful of President Bush’s ‘good vs evil’ and ‘you’re either with us or against us’ narrative, he did ...

One young woman told The Media Line that she was sexually assaulted during interrogation, and that heavily-built officers ...

In 2025, China was the most prolific perpetrator of transnational repression, a new Freedom House report found.

Four years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing a spring of discontent.

Freedom House counts 126 cases of transnational repression in 2025 involving 30 countries.

Six new governments—those of Afghanistan, Benin, Georgia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe—were identified for the first time as ...

Dozens of my family members, including my father, have disappeared into China’s system of mass incarceration over the past ...

Speaking during the discussion on the motion of thanks to the president’s address, government and opposition lawmakers also ...

“Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right guaranteed by national and international frameworks, including Section 39 of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution, Article 19 of the UDHR and ICCPR, ...

By the decisive middle years of World War II, the Waffen-SS was no longer just Hitler’s elite battlefield force. It was ...

The rights group recommends countries with democracies should slap sanctions on foreign leaders who favor transnational ...