JOINT STATEMENT We, the undersigned leaders, activists, and defenders of democracy and human rights across Africa and beyond, stand in firm solidarity with Tundu Lissu, Chairman of Tanzania’s main opposition party, CHADEMA, and call for his immediate and unconditional release.…
The World Liberty Congress (WLC) strongly condemns the renewed persecution of Rwandan opposition leader and WLC member Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, who was arrested overnight following a politically motivated directive from Rwanda’s High Council of Judiciary. On June 19, 2025, Ms.…
Source: Confidencial
By Felix Maradiaga, Leadership Council member. While many of us gathered this week in Washington for the AI+ Expo 2025 to explore the double-edged nature of technology in today’s world, something extraordinary was unfolding just 90 miles south of Florida:…
May 27, 2025 The World Liberty Congress (WLC) is outraged by the arrest, brutal torture, and inhumane treatment of human rights defenders Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire during their recent visit to Tanzania. These appalling acts of state-sponsored violence represent…
From Revolution to Repression In 2011, Tunisia lit the spark that became the Arab Spring. The Jasmine Revolution—ignited by the self-immolation of a young street vendor—toppled the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and launched a wave of uprisings…
by Masih Alinejad, president of the WLC, The Next Move. Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad: The men hired to murder me were convicted. Now the US should stand up to the regime that sent them. The first time I saw him…
by De Morgen. On May 13, a Belgian court will examine whether tens of thousands of documents concerning dissidents opposing the Kazakh regime can be extradited to that very dictatorship. These documents were seized in 2019 from Bota Jardemalie’s Brussels…
April 29, 2025 The World Liberty Congress (WLC) demands the immediate and unconditional release of Tofig Yagublu, Azerbaijani opposition leader and a lifelong fighter for freedom and democracy, whose life is in grave danger following his imprisonment on fabricated charges…