Javier El-Hage

Chief Legal & Policy Officer @HRF, which organizes the @OsloFF

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

HRF condemns the Ortega-Murillo regime’s latest constitutional reform in Nicaragua, which suspends the scheduled 2026 elections and extends their dictatorial mandate through 2028. This move codifies the regime’s ongoing assault on democratic legitimacy and cements total authoritarian control.

[Tamara Suju @TAMARA_SUJU]

#Nicaragua: EE.UU exige a Nicaragua liberar a familiares de líder indígena muerto en prisión

Unos seis familiares y otras personas que viajaron a Managua a reclamar el cuerpo fueron detenidos y desde entonces se desconoce su paradero, según denunciaron oenegés y la hija exiliada del fallecido, Tininiska Rivera. https://t.co/SelpHclobQ

[Human Rights Foundation @HRF_es]

@JavierElHage, director legal y de políticas de HRF, presentará el Tyranny Tracker y moderará un panel con la abogada venezolana @EliTrotta, el activista nicaragüense Jonathan Duarte (@latamdemocracy), Eduardo Repilloza de HRF y @mbbarahonarubio de @Cristosal.

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

@JavierElHage, HRF’s Chief Legal and Policy Officer, will present the Tyranny Tracker and moderate a panel featuring Venezuelan human rights lawyer @EliTrotta, Nicaraguan pro-democracy advocate Jonathan Duarte (@latamdemocracy ), HRF’s Eduardo Repilloza and Cristosal’s @mbbarahonarubio.

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

Today, HRF brings the Tyranny Tracker to the City of Buenos Aires.

As part of @CADAL’s conference on Memory, Human Rights and International Democratic Solidarity, HRF will introduce its democracy index and examine the realities of authoritarianism across Latin America.

[Thor Halvorssen @ThorHalvorssen]

Alejandro Betancourt is ground zero for understanding corruption in Venezuela. This fearless investigation by London’s Sunday Times is an excellent introduction to how a politically connected grifter got rich through corruption and is now being positioned as indispensable to Venezuela’s future

https://t.co/3Ej7FYsvut

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

The College Freedom Forum (CFF) will be in Berlin on Friday, Sept. 25!

Swazi human rights activist @tanele_maseko joins us to share how she has continued the fight courageously for democracy after the assassination of her husband, proving that even in the face of unimaginable loss, the pursuit of freedom endures.

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

Russia has designated HRF an “undesirable organization,” criminalizing our work inside the country and threatening anyone who engages with us with fines and imprisonment.

The Kremlin cited our Tyranny Tracker (https://t.co/I5miL2V1uI), launched in February with the support of The Reynolds Foundation, as justification.

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

Last week, the HRF team presented the Tyranny Tracker at Stanford University’s CDDRL, sharing how the index helps researchers better measure authoritarianism and democratic resilience. Thank you to Stanford CDDRL for hosting and to The Reynolds Foundation for supporting this work.

Explore the Tyranny Tracker: https://t.co/8p1cyfv5Uk

[Javier El-Hage @JavierElHage]

Grateful to have presented @HRF's Tyranny Tracker (powered by The Reynolds Foundation), alongside my colleagues Mohamed Keita, Malaak Jamal, Kristen Clemens, @Piaggio_g , Pavel K. and our admired friend @jesusarmasccs, to the extraordinary 2026 democracy fellows cohort selected by @Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), which includes our friends Pedro Uruchurtu and @bertavalle. Specially grateful to Prof. @FukuyamaFrancis, Prof. @kath_stoner, and Prof. @LarryDiamond for inviting us and leading such an extraordinary program.

You can explore the Tyranny Tracker here: https://t.co/bAxFtlKakc

[Javier El-Hage @JavierElHage]

Worth watching:

https://t.co/WdVHZulU72

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

After five years of imprisonment, Cuban artist and prisoner of conscience @LMOAlcantara is no longer behind bars. HRF condemns the Cuban regime for forcing him into exile as the price of his freedom and calls for the release of all political prisoners in Cuba. Read the full press release → https://t.co/VsUkOhckr6

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

Authoritarian regimes don’t just suppress dissent — they manufacture legitimacy.

[Rosa María Payá A. @RosaMariaPaya]

Tengo fe, estamos en el umbral del cambio.

Gracias a todos los que nos acompañaron en este 14 Aniversario del atentado.

#LaNocheNoSeráEterna

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

Today, HRF released two new policy briefs outlining practical recommendations for the United States and the European Union to strengthen their responses to China's transnational repression.

[Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @HRF]

HRF condemns Delcy Rodríguez’s regime for its disastrous handling of the devastating June 24 earthquakes in Venezuela. The Venezuelan people must receive life-saving aid without delay or political obstruction, and authorities must ensure that humanitarian actors can operate freely.

[Thor Halvorssen @ThorHalvorssen]

Delcy Rodríguez, the "acting" president of Venezuela has declared a state of emergency.

What you are watching from Venezuela is more than a natural disaster story. It is a governance autopsy.

Hundreds are confirmed dead and the real toll is rising because no one is coming to rescue those still trapped in the rubble.

Let's break it down: Twin 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes. Buildings collapsed in Caracas and neighboring cities.

And where are the ambulances?

Where are the fire trucks?

Where is the state?

There are no emergency services. Because there is no state. There is only a criminal enterprise that wears a costume. The state built a machinery to repress. Silence. Torture. Kill. Not to rescue.

To every American businessperson who has traveled to Caracas in the last few months, met with Delcy Rodríguez, signed deals, convinced themselves that "things are changing" and that engagement is pragmatic. This is for you…

For those who believe the American government fiction that "everything is going great" with Delcy…. you are watching your thesis collapse in real time, under rubble, with no one coming to help.

The fiction that Venezuela is "open for business" exists for one reason: Delcy and her brother Jorge need your money, your legitimacy, and your silence. They have no intention of reforming. They respond that they just "don't know" when elections will take place. They have no intention of being held accountable for the billions looted, the political prisoners disappeared, the diaspora of more than eight million people. They need you as props. They need you to keep telling Washington that things are "great!" And that Delcy is exactly what Venezuela needs right now to "stabilize" and "reform."

What this earthquake reveals, as every crisis in Venezuela reveals, is that Maduro and his cronies hollowed out every institution. PDVSA. The hospitals. The fire departments. Civil defense. Emergency services. All of it stripped to the bone and the proceeds wired offshore.

The death toll will be much higher precisely because of what the people now in power did over the last 25 years.

Let's be clear: The people dying tonight and in the next few days under collapsed buildings in Caracas are not dying because of an earthquake. They are dying because of 25 years of systematic looting by the same people now issuing press releases about a "state of emergency." Because they're wholly unprepared. Because they looted everything. Did away with talent. And on top of all of this have zero empathy or motivation to help anyone but themselves. They didn’t care about millions of people fleeing into a jungle and walking hundreds of miles to freedom. Why would they care about survivors of this natural disaster?

The media locally isn't reporting or showing the images of the devastation. They're terrified of upsetting the dictatorship.

And tonight:

Not a firefighter in sight. Not an ambulance in sight. Just cameras, and Delcy, and the performance of governance where none exists.

Those businesspeople were warned. The Venezuelans who fled told you. The human rights organizations told you. The evidence was always there.

Now you have photographs.

[Mary Elizabeth @MarytaLeon]

Venezuela roja rojita

La @HRF presentó en Madrid el Rastreador de Tiranía, un Índice que mide la libertad política en todo el mundo.

En la conferencia inaugural del XIX Congreso de Economía Austríaca del @juandemariana, el director legal de Human Rights Foundation, @JavierElHage, explicó la metodología y mostró el mapa global actual de autoritarismos.

El Rastreador de Tiranía clasifica a los países en tres categorías: democráticos, autoritarios híbridos o plenamente autoritarios

Más 👉 https://t.co/uAakeGQGg2

[Eric Herrera🗽🌐 @erichpunti]

Gran acte demà a l’@AteneuBCN
Una radiografia global de l’autoritarisme.

Amb la presència de l’opositor veneçolà @leopoldolopez, @AstridBarrio i @JavierElHage

[Eric Herrera🗽🌐 @erichpunti]

Ponents de luxe ara mateix a l’@AteneuBCN per debatre sobre les noves amenaces autoritàries globals.