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The political uprisings that have swept the Arab world over the past year represent the most significant challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism, according to Freedom in the World 2012, the latest edition of Freedom House’s annual global survey.
Susan Corke, director for Eurasia programs at Freedom House, testified before the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe about Kazakhstan’s growing instability.
Christopher Walker, Freedom House vice president for strategy and analysis, spoke on a panel January 23 at Columbia University about the methods used by authoritarian states to cling to power.
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Freedom in the World 2012: The Arab Uprisings and Their Global Repercussions
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Modern Methods of Authoritarian Rule
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Freedom House calls on the Kyrgyzstani government to implement prison reform measures that respect the rights of detainees and bring the penal system into compliance with international human rights standards. This month, thousands of prison inmates across the country coordinated hunger strikes, sewed their lips shut, and mutilated their bodies, reportedly to protest poor conditions and rights abuses throughout Kyrgyzstan’s prison system.
Freedom House opposes the Obama Administration’s decision to move forward with an arms sale to Bahrain, as that government continues to repress peaceful demonstrations for political reform. On Friday, the U.S. announced that it would move forward with a limited sale of military items to the Bahraini government after a larger, $53 million sale was put on hold due to opposition in the U.S.
Freedom House calls for the immediate release of five Girifna youth movement activists in Khartoum, Sudan and others arrested after recent protests throughout the country.
Freedom House condemns the arrest of opposition activists and an independent journalist in Kazakhstan and calls for their immediate release. These arrests follow parliamentary elections on January 15 and investigations into large-scale December uprisings.
To mark the first anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 revolution—which resulted in the fall of long-time president Hosni Mubarak just 18 days later—a coalition of more than 80 revolutionary groups issued a statement underscoring just how unfinished the revolution really is.
The Bahraini Government’s refusal to allow a Freedom House delegation to visit the country calls into serious question its stated intent to engage in meaningful reform.
