FREEDOMS

CIVIL AND POLITICAL FREEDOMS

DIGITAL RIGHTS: ‘The priority should be holding tech companies accountable, not banning children from the digital world’

Marie-Ève Nadeau | BELGIUM

BAHRAIN: ‘The death penalty is being used as a tool of political suppression’

Sayed Yusuf Almuhafdha | GERMANY

ISRAEL: ‘The new death penalty law sorts people into separate legal universes’

Carol Daniel-Kasbari | UNITED STATES

VENEZUELA: ‘The credit goes to detainees’ families, human rights organisations and the international community’

Manuel Virgüez | VENEZUELA

TECHNOLOGY: ‘The solution cannot be to cut children off social media, but to make it safer’

Goran Rizaov | NORTH MACEDONIA

USA: ‘Civil society organisations are holding the line, they are not hiding’

Christopher Einolf | USA

AFGHANISTAN: ‘The Criminal Procedure Code consolidates ideological and legal control over society’

Wahida Omari | THE NETHERLANDS

INDONESIA: ‘We are building the country we want, brick by brick, even if we won’t see the final result’

Thalitha Yuristiana | INDONESIA

AI: ‘African governments are using “smart city” systems to monitor dissent and consolidate state control’

Wairagala Wakabi | UGANDA

HONG KONG: ‘Independent civil society is being replaced with state-aligned structures’

Alric Lee | HONG KONG