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.
Newsletter Nov 13, 2025 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #97 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has raised alarm over an escalating crisis for press freedom in Pakistan, where local journalists and media workers are being financially targeted.
Newsletter Nov 6, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #96 In Cuba, independent media outlet El Toque is again under pressure for publishing data on the informal exchange rates for the Cuban peso. The tool tracks the growing…
Report Oct 31, 2025 The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Bitcoin is a financial lifeline for dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes. The rise of cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) with the ability to crack Bitcoin’s underlying cryptography could threaten the network’s security foundations.
Newsletter Oct 30, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #95 Russia’s Ministry of Finance has proposed granting dictator Vladimir Putin sweeping powers to restrict foreign currency transactions, including limits on individual dollar…
Press Release Oct 28, 2025 HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund Supports 20 Projects Worldwide The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce 1 billion satoshis ($1.1 million USD) in grants from its Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF).
Publication Oct 28, 2025 Bitcoin Is Freedom Money—Just Ask Nobel Peace Prize Winner When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the global media rightly celebrated her courage in confronting dictatorship.
Video Oct 27, 2025 Bitcoin and the End of Financial Repression Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and author of Check Your Financial Privilege and Hidden Repression.
Newsletter Oct 23, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #94 In Venezuela, opposition leader María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize for her steadfast defense of democracy and freedom. Despite persecution from Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship…
Newsletter Oct 9, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #93 In China, the central bank has opened a new international operations center for the digital yuan in Shanghai to expand the central bank digital currencies’ (CBDCs) role in global finance
Newsletter Oct 2, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #92 In North Korea, the totalitarian regime launched its first automated banking hotline to support account inquiries as it pushes away from cash and towards…
Announcement Oct 1, 2025 Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money: HRF in the Journal of Democracy The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to share “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money,” a new essay by HRF Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein, published in the Journal of Democracy.
Publication Oct 1, 2025 Bitcoin is Freedom Money Authoritarian governments worldwide are increasingly using financial repression to disable their challengers.
Newsletter Sep 25, 2025 Financial Freedom Report #91 In Vietnam, the central bank deactivated more than 86 million bank accounts on Sept. 1, erasing nearly half the country’s financial accounts. The move is part of a national push for mandatory biometric ID, framed by…
