Newsletter Mar 26, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #114 In Uganda, the Museveni regime has frozen the bank accounts of several prominent human rights organizations.
Newsletter Mar 19, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #113 This edition examines Venezuela’s first official inflation reading in more than a year after the regime halted public reporting and restricted independent estimates.
Newsletter Mar 12, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #112 We begin this week’s edition in Cuba, where personal stories reveal the human toll of currency collapse under the communist regime.
Newsletter Mar 5, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #111 In Nicaragua, the Ortega-Murillo regime is turning exile into economic erasure. Nicaraguans expelled since 2023 have reported that, within hours of deportation, the state stripped them of their nationality, canceled their pensions, and deleted decades of their contribution records.
Newsletter Feb 26, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #110 In Gabon, officials have imposed an indefinite nationwide social media suspension.
Newsletter Feb 19, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #109 In India, the government is piloting a new system that uses its central bank digital currency (CBDC) to distribute free food rations.
Newsletter Feb 12, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #108 In Kenya, the central bank warned that making Valentine’s Day bouquets out of banknotes could carry prison sentences of up to seven years.
Newsletter Feb 5, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #107 In Russia, physical bank branches are closing down at a record pace. The closures are placing renewed pressure on Russians living in rural areas and those contending with frequent Internet disruptions as a result of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Newsletter Jan 29, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #106 This week, we investigate new developments surrounding China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), as recent design changes show that the Chinese Communist Party is experimenting with new incentives to onboard people to this more tightly controlled kind of money.
Newsletter Jan 22, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #105 In Nigeria, a tax law requires providers of digital assets to monitor transactions, collect personal information, and link payments to biometric national ID systems.
Newsletter Jan 15, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #104 We begin this week in Iran, where currency collapse has turned into a call for political change.
Press Release Jan 13, 2026 HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund Announces Support for 22 Projects Worldwide The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce 1.3 billion satoshis in grants from its Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF).
Announcement Jan 1, 2026 Top 15 Freedom Tech Projects of 2025 Looking back on 2025, financial and digital repression under authoritarian regimes continued to grow.
Newsletter Dec 25, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #103 We begin this week with a stark case of transnational financial repression. Russian dissident and financial director of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), Anna Chekhovich, reports that her US bank accounts were temporarily shut down after the Kremlin labeled her an “extremist.”
Report Dec 23, 2025 2025 Financial Freedom Impact Report 2025 was a milestone year for HRF’s Financial Freedom program. It was defined by growth, collaboration, and real progress.
Newsletter Dec 18, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #102 Last week, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, an international recognition of her decades-long efforts for democracy, human dignity, and free elections in Venezuela.
Newsletter Dec 11, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #101 In India, financial officials confirmed that the digital rupee, the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), is now live and complete with spending controls.
Newsletter Nov 27, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #100 One hundred weeks ago, we set out to document how authoritarian regimes manipulate money and employ financial repression to restrict civil liberties, silence dissent, and undermine human rights – and how individuals are resisting with open-source software.
Newsletter Nov 27, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #99 Today, we reflect on the financial repression so many face around the world, and how brave and creative minds are pushing back.
Newsletter Nov 20, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #98 In Indonesia, the government introduced a bill to redenominate the rupiah currency following a sharp decline in purchasing power.
