Freedom Now


Freedom Now is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to facilitate representation for arbitrarily detained individuals who have neither used nor advocated violence and whose detention violates fundamental principles of international law.
Its approach is to use focused legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts designed to compel the release of individuals deprived of their liberty in violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international human rights instruments.
A small organization with limited resources, Freedom Now works closely with other human rights organizations and lawyers to identify high-impact cases that would benefit from the organization's approach.

Notable campaigns

Freedom Now represents 22 prisoners of conscience worldwide, including:
Prisoners of conscience previously represented by Freedom Now include:
In 2011, Freedom Now partnered with the UN and Thomson Reuters to create the . The online database includes over 800 legal decisions from 1992 to the present. It is the only searchable, complete database of Working Group decisions available. Freedom Now continues to monitor and update the database.