Freedom IndexGlobal Free Speech
Global Free Speech covers international stories and trends affecting the right to speak, publish, and share ideas across borders. From government crackdowns to grassroots movements, this category highlights the global fight for free expression in diverse political and cultural landscapes.
Mexico City, Dec. 9, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Honduran authorities to swiftly and impartially investigate journalist Henry…
El Salvador’s President Nayib Armando Bukele, self-proclaimed “coolest dictator”, has had a busy 2025. Among his draconian rulings are escalated attacks on…
Is John Lee closing out 2025 in disaster or triumph? His harsh response to November’s tragic fire suggests the latter,…
New York, December 8, 2025—Algerian authorities must cease their legal attacks on the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said…
Israel once boasted it was the only democracy in the Middle East. But in the last year the country’s Prime…
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, December 9, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to immediately release Iraqi Kurdish…
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has been the country’s leader for 36 years, so tyranny is in his blood.…
India has been called the world’s largest democracy but under Narendra Modi that label might need an update. Threats to…
Russia’s “Father of the Nation” Vladimir Putin is overseeing a predictably grim 2025. He continues killing innocent Ukrainians and sending…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been on the path to authoritarianism since he first came to power more than…
More often than not, we talk about “the Taliban” rather than individual leaders in Afghanistan. But this forgets the real…
Tanzania had high hopes for Samia Suluhu Hassan, even though she was the leader of Chama Cha Mapinduzi, which had dominated…