On this International Day of Political Prisoners, we stand together to affirm a simple truth: no one should be imprisoned for exercising their fundamental rights or for peacefully expressing their beliefs. Yet around the world, there are an estimated one million...
Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the detention of prominent Vietnamese journalist, writer and woman human rights defender Pham Doan Trang, an international coalition of non-governmental organisations is urging the global community to increase pressure on Vietnamese...
September 2025 – A coalition of human rights groups has written to the International Association of Judges (IAJ) ahead of its annual meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, calling for a strong resolution on the country’s lack of judicial independence and ongoing repression....
Free Buzurgmehr Yorov and All Others Held for Exercising their Human Rights (September 29, 2025) – Tajikistan’s authorities have wrongfully imprisoned a human rights lawyer for 10 years for exercising his human rights, 12 organizations said today. Buzurgmehr Yorov is...
Freedom Now welcomes the release of journalist Igor Losik from wrongful detention in Belarus. Losik had been imprisoned for more than five years for reporting on anti-government protests. Prior to his arrest, Losik worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and ran a...
On September 5, 2025, Freedom Now and the international law firm Dechert LLP filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Filipino human rights activists Frenchie Mae Cumpio, Marielle Domequil, and Alexander Abinguna. The petition...
