Freedom House

Antidemocratic leaders share a propensity for using scapegoats to weaken their opponents and break constraints on their own power.

Dissident convictions and acts of censorship seem timed to avoid lumps of coal from international observers.

Governments are dramatically increasing their efforts to manipulate social media, threatening the notion of the internet as a liberating technology, according to Freedom on the Net 2017.

Chinese censors leave no stone unturned as apps, human rights websites and critical scholars become increasingly targeted.

Three young leaders of Hong Kong’s democracy movement have been jailed for leading the 2014 protests.

Moldova follows Russia’s (bad) example by introducing draft legislation that would restrict the activities of 90% of its NGOs.

After his death, not only was Liu’s name censored on social media platforms, even phrases containing the word “thunder” – a homophone for “tears” in Chinese – and the candle emoji were removed by censors.

An investigative reporter for the independent newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Tomasz Piatek is facing a possible two to three-year jail sentence in a case that is being prepared by military prosecutors and could be heard by a military court.