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 countries

Belarus

1,253 cases · 544 with identified basis

Russia

1,173 cases · 816 with identified basis

Turkey

390 cases · 147 with identified basis

Iran

234 cases · 69 with identified basis

Ethiopia

168 cases · 39 with identified basis

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

161 cases · 54 with identified basis

Kazakhstan

149 cases · 92 with identified basis

Georgia

139 cases · 2 with identified basis

Myanmar

123 cases · 43 with identified basis

Egypt

109 cases · 51 with identified basis

Uzbekistan

96 cases · 61 with identified basis

Vietnam

90 cases · 35 with identified basis

Syria

62 cases · 6 with identified basis

Azerbaijan

61 cases · 37 with identified basis

Sudan

59 cases · 7 with identified basis

Democratic Republic of the Congo

51 cases · 21 with identified basis

Kyrgyzstan

51 cases · 20 with identified basis

Tajikistan

50 cases · 12 with identified basis

Cuba

50 cases · 5 with identified basis

Eritrea

49 cases · 7 with identified basis

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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