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

Two other prominent human rights defenders, Mohammed al-Qahtani – another ACPRA co-founder – and Essa al-Nukheifi, were held arbitrarily for more than two years beyond their prison terms before being ...

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 ...

The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a dramatic decline in global internet freedom. For the 10th consecutive year, users have experienced an ...

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

Governments around the world are increasingly exerting control over the technology that people depend on to access the free and open internet. Anti-censorship and encrypted tools are lifelines for ...

It was announced in January that Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian humanist leader, had been released from prison in August 2024 after more than four years of unjust detention for expressing his views on ...

Alex Dent was the 2021-22 Freedom in the World Junior Fellow for Sub-Saharan Africa. Since the end of the fellowship, Alex has remained in New York City and is currently working as a Research ...

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 ...