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Highlighting Human Rights During US Visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao
Jan 21, 2011


As President Obama welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao at the White House, Freedom House joined a group of Chinese political prisoners and dissidents, as well as several members of U.S. Congress and prominent human rights organizations, at a press conference on Capitol Hillto call attention to the Chinese government’s systematic abuses of human rights.


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Freedom in the World 2011: The Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy
Jan 13, 2011
On January 13, Freedom House hosted an event to launch the findings of Freedom in the World 2011, its annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the findings, 2010 was the fifth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report. The panel discussed this decline, as well as the increasing assertiveness of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes, and the growing inability or unwillingness of the world’s democracies to meet the authoritarian challenge.
 
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A Heartfelt Thank You From Azerbaijan
Dec 21, 2010
Bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, who were released in late November after being wrongly imprisoned in Azerbaijan since 2009, recently created a video thanking Freedom House and other human rights organizations and government officials who had lobbied on their behalf.  Freedom of expression in Azerbaijan has many challenges both legal and societal.  Journalists have increasingly become targets of violence and their attackers often go unpunished, and restrictive laws target journalists engaging in critical reporting.
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To learn more about freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, click here.
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Egypt's democratic facade continues to crumble

December 01, 2010 -

Egypt’s November parliamentary elections saw, as expected, a sweeping victory for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), though that triumph occurred amid allegations of the worst fraud, electoral rigging, and political repression that Egypt has ever seen.

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Around the World, Freedom is in Decline

January 20, 2011 - Washington Post

Freedom Gone South

January 20, 2011 - Foreign Policy, by Joshua Keating

Belarusian Dreaming

January 03, 2011 - Wall Street Journal, by David J. Kramer

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According to local media in Nicaragua, several journalists from newspaper El Diario Nuevo have reportedly been threatened after publishing articles dealing with alleged corruption within the government of President Daniel Ortega. The newspaper accused the Housing Ministry and the equivalent of the IRS of numerous acts of corruption and nepotism.
Human rights activists in Bahrain reported the arrest of Mohammed Rashid, a political blogger and critic of the government. Mr. Rashid’s alleged crimes include detailing human rights abuses by the government and spreading opposition statements.