The Capture Atlas
What puts people in prison.
The basis each political prosecution is built on — online speech, financial support, device evidence, informant testimony — compared across every tracked country. Click any segment to read the cited cases with verbatim evidence.
Countries20
Cases5,248
Minimum confidence
Online SpeechFinancial SupportDevice EvidenceInformant / Secret WitnessPhysical PresenceIntercepted CommunicationsState Fabrication
Prosecution basis by country
20 countriesBelarus
Russia
Turkey
Iran
Ethiopia
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Myanmar
Egypt
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Syria
Azerbaijan
Sudan
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Cuba
Eritrea
Each bar is a share of that country's cases whose prosecution basis could be identified from the source documents — every figure traces to cited cases with verbatim evidence.
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