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Dear John,
This month, Freedom House executives and trustees visited imprisoned Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora at a military prison in Guatemala City.
Zamora is the founder of the newspaper El Periódico, which made its name by exposing corruption in the ruling classes. He was imprisoned on dubious charges, aimed at intimidating an outspoken critic of the powerful political, economic, military, and organized crime groups that make up the country’s power structure.
Yet even as the original case against him was dismissed last year, he remains in prison, as prosecutors seem determined to keep him locked up while he awaits an opportunity to clear his name in a retrial.
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Bulgaria Should Release Saudi Activist Abdulrahman al-Khalidi
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Freedom House joined other organizations in calling on Bulgarian authorities to halt Saudi activist Abdulrahman al-Khalidi's imminent deportation to Saudi Arabia. If deported, al-Khalidi would be at real risk of torture and other serious human rights violations, and should be released and reconsidered for international protection in a fair asylum procedure.
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Election Watch: South Africa
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Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa faces what may be its most highly contested election. Despite a high level of resilience, Freedom House has identified digital interference issues to watch ahead of election day, including online harassment against journalists and information manipulation on public online discourse.
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Explore the Map of Freedom
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Check out the interactive Freedom in the World 2024 map, where you can see country scores, Freedom Status, and trends for 210 countries and territories.
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Save the Date: Nations in Transit 2024
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Join us for the launch of Nations in Transit 2024, Freedom House's report on the state of democracy in the 29-country region stretching from Central Europe to Central Asia, a region increasingly defined by the widening gulf between those nations committed to a liberal, democratic order and those that violently reject it.
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Freedom House in the News
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Defend Democracy,
Champion Freedom.
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