In 2021, the V-Dem institute classified Bangladesh as an “electoral autocracy”, while in the same year, Freedom House listed Bangladesh as “partly free”.

Source: http://bangladeshchronicle.net/bangladesh-one-of-the-worst-autocratisers-in-the-last-10-years-as-per-2023-v-dem-report/

It was signed by some 480 global figures, Freedom House said, including Nobel-Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and actor Richard Gere.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/02/global-figures-urge-support-iran-protesters

Still, Freedom House, which annually rates the level of freedom of different states, categorized Iraq in 2023 as not free.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iraq-invasion-1.6782346?cmp=rss

To compose its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the organisation draws a “poll of polls” of expert assessments and opinion surveys – including the UK-based Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Bank and US-based think tank Freedom House.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1807471/most-and-least-corrupt-countries-map-spt