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Freedom Call
Freedom Call is a German melodic power metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 1998 by Chris Bay and Dan Zimmermann, known for its upbeat "happy metal" style.
Freedom Caucus
House Freedom Caucus: hard-right Republican House faction founded January 2015 by nine members under Jim Jordan; secretive, invitation-only, 80% binding rule; drove Boehner out, shaped 2023 speakership, and spread to state legislatures.
Freedom Charter
The Freedom Charter is a statement of principles adopted by around 3,000 delegates at Kliptown, Johannesburg, in June 1955, demanding a non-racial, democratic South Africa.
Freedom Cities
Freedom Cities: Trump's March 2023 Agenda47 proposal for up to ten deregulated, master-planned cities on federal land, selected by contest; stalled in Congress, compared to charter cities and company towns.
Freedom Day (South Africa)
Freedom Day (South Africa), 27 April public holiday commemorating the first democratic elections of 27 April 1994 that ended apartheid; about 20 million voted, the ANC won 62.65%, and Nelson Mandela became the first Black president.
Freedom EVO
Freedom EVO is a series of modular automated liquid handling workstations made by Tecan of Switzerland, launched in 2003 for genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, and diagnostics.
Freedom Fighters (video game)
Freedom Fighters (2003) is a squad-based third-person shooter by IO Interactive, published by EA, set in a Soviet-occupied alternate-history New York; plumber Chris Stone recruits and commands up to 12 fighters; re-released digitally in 2020.
Freedom Fighters: The Ray
Freedom Fighters: The Ray is a 2017–2018 CW Seed animated DC series, also a 2018 compilation film, following gay superhero Ray Terrill (Russell Tovey) fighting Nazi Overgirl (Melissa Benoist) on Earth-X.
Freedom Flights
The Freedom Flights were an organized US air bridge flying Cuban emigrants from Varadero, Cuba, to Miami twice daily from late 1965 until 1973, bringing about 250,000 people.
Freedom Force (2002 video game)
Freedom Force (2002) is Irrational Games' tactical superhero RPG for PC and Mac, released March 2002, published by 2K. Original comic-book heroes defend Patriot City against Energy X villains; Metacritic 90, sequel vs. the Third Reich (2005).
Freedom Force (comics)
Freedom Force (Marvel Comics) is a 1985 government-sponsored mutant team formed when Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants took a federal pardon, battled the X-Men, and preceded the federal X-Factor.
Freedom fries
Freedom fries: 2003 US renaming of french fries, coined by Neal Rowland at Cubbie's in Beaufort, North Carolina, and adopted by House cafeterias on March 11, 2003, to protest France's opposition to the Iraq invasion; reversed in 2006.
Freedom Front Plus
Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus, Vryheidsfront Plus, VF Plus): right-wing South African party founded in 1994 by Constand Viljoen for Afrikaner minority interests; 6 seats and one minister in the 2024 Government of National Unity, led since February 2025 by Corné Mulder.
Freedom Fuel
Freedom Fuel, also known as Freedom Fuel Network, is a chain of discount gas stations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that sold gasoline at $3.47 per gallon in July 2026.
Freedom House
Freedom House is a US nonprofit founded in 1941, known for Freedom in the World, an annual report scoring political rights and civil liberties in 195 countries and 13 territories as Free, Partly Free, or Not Free.
Freedom in the World
Freedom in the World is Freedom House's annual report rating political rights and civil liberties in 195 countries and 13 territories on a 100-point scale since 1973, using 25 indicators and Free, Partly Free, or Not Free statuses.
Freedom Mobile
Freedom Mobile, formerly WIND Mobile, is a Canadian regional wireless carrier owned by Quebecor through Videotron, operating its own network in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia.
Freedom Movement of Iran
Freedom Movement of Iran (Nehzat-e Azadi-e Iran), also Liberation Movement of Iran: liberal Islamic party founded 1961 by Mehdi Bazargan, Yadollah Sahabi, and Ayatollah Taleqani; Bazargan led the 1979 provisional government, which collapsed in the hostage crisis.
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of assembly: the right to gather peacefully, guaranteed by ICCPR article 21 and the US First Amendment, with ODIHR/Venice Commission restriction standards and 2025 CIVICUS data on protest detentions in 82 countries.
Freedom of association
Freedom of association is the right to form, join, or refuse organizations such as unions, parties, and civil society groups, protected by ILO Convention 87, ICCPR Article 22, and ECHR Article 11, subject to restrictions prescribed by law and necessary in a democratic society.
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention
ILO Convention No. 87 (1948), the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention: guarantees workers and employers the right to form organizations without prior authorization; 158 ratifications; ICJ 2026 opinion confirmed the right to strike.
Freedom of expression in India
Freedom of expression in India: a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(a), subject to eight restriction grounds in Article 19(2). Covers Shreya Singhal, Anuradha Bhasin, the 1975-77 Emergency censorship, internet shutdowns, and RSF press freedom rankings.
Freedom of information
Freedom of information (FOI), or right to information, is the legal right to access government-held information. First enacted in Sweden in 1766; now guaranteed in 139 UN member states, with the US FOIA (1966) and UK FOIA 2000 as prominent statutes.
Freedom of Information Act (United States)
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, the 1966 U.S. federal law giving any person the right to request federal agency records, subject to nine exemptions, a 20-business-day response deadline, and post-2016 foreseeable-harm withholding standard.
Freedom of movement
Freedom of movement: the right to travel within a state, leave any country, choose residence, and return home. Grounded in ICCPR Article 12, ECHR Protocol 4, EU free movement law, and the US right to travel.
Freedom of movement under United States law
Freedom of movement under United States law protects interstate and foreign travel through judge-made constitutional doctrine, keyed to Saenz v. Roe's three components, Shapiro v. Thompson, Kent v. Dulles, and strict scrutiny for penalties on travel.
Freedom of navigation
Freedom of navigation: law-of-the-sea principle under UNCLOS guaranteeing innocent passage in territorial seas, transit passage in international straits like Hormuz, and high-seas freedoms in EEZs, enforced by the US FON program since 1979.
Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion, or religious liberty, is the human right to hold, change, or renounce a religion or belief and to practice it openly or privately.
Freedom of religion in India
Freedom of religion in India: constitutional right under Articles 25–28 in a secular republic, shaped by the essential practices doctrine, state anti-conversion laws, the CAA, and contested USCIRF assessments.
Freedom of religion in the United States
Freedom of religion in the United States rests on the First Amendment's Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses, Article VI's religious-test ban, RFRA and RLUIPA, and evolving Supreme Court doctrine from Everson and Lemon through Kennedy v. Bremerton.