Every human being has a right to be free. This meaning is very wide, but we can say that it is something like an independence. Every human on our planet has a right to be free from other people, has a right to have his own views, his own way of living, his own faith, his own lifestyle and so on. But he also is obliged to respect the rights of the others. But he also is obliged to respect the rights of the others . It's essential for every man on earth to tolerate the behavior and the personalities of the ones he is living among, and the rights of one man cannot collide with the rights of the other. No one can be superior to any other person. Unfortunately the right to freedom is not everywhere obeyed.
Since the most ancient times freedom was a luxury only few could achieve. In general freedom of people was totally restricted until the first democratic systems appeared in Greece at the end of sixth century BC. In ancient Greece and Rome people were living quite comfortably. But after the fall of Rome, world was dominated by religion Christianity in Europe and Islam in south-west Asia and northern Africa. In fact every country in these years was the one that the faith was a law. Of course the religion may be the code of laws for human, but no one can tell me how my faith should look like. At moment when one country occurred on the world map as free nation didn't mean that it's inhabitants became totally free. Most of African countries changed one regime for another. Quite similar situation, but maybe on a smaller scale, has taken place in Russia in late 80s and early 90s, when the structure of ZSRR has collapsed. The new democratic government was a group of people, who earned a lot on poor society, pushing their country onto the edge of misery. The Russian nation was totally devastated by 78 years of communists rules of fear, violence, lies and total lack of privacy of its citizens. After the abolition of the regime, society was divided for few groups - those who had power, money, those, who were beyond the law, businessmen but also for poor, hungry people and the criminal underworld. Fragmented society, where one group supervise another isn't a good environment for development of freedom and human rights. And without it, the whole country won't develop.
Freedom is what every nation needs to develop, it is the engine of
a rich, modern country, it's the essence of democratic society, where every citizen has a right and possibility to participate in creating the fundaments of his own happiness.