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Human rights defender arrested, charged
- Published at
- 04.12.2023
- Country
- Gambia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- HRD prosecuted

Internet disruptions, deportations of Turkey-based activists and bread protests
- Published at
- 04.12.2023
- Country
- Turkmenistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Anti-LGBTQI+ protests held across Malawi
- Published at
- 02.12.2023
- Country
- Malawi
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- youth
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- protestor(s) detained

New draft Law threatens freedom of association
- Published at
- 02.12.2023
- Country
- Tunisia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Maldives: As new government takes power, civil society calls for reforms including ending impunity for crimes against journalists
- Published at
- 01.12.2023
- Country
- Maldives
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- protest

Singapore: Authorities ban expression on Israel-Palestine conflict and use POFMA law to harass critics, block site
- Published at
- 30.11.2023
- Country
- Singapore
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Malaysia: Bookstores raided, news portal blocked, activists criminalised and sedition law used to stifle dissent
- Published at
- 28.11.2023
- Country
- Malaysia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- land rights

Press freedom violations in the run-up to elections
- Published at
- 27.11.2023
- Country
- Liberia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- non state actors
- intimidation

Crackdown on protesters: at least one person killed and several injured
- Published at
- 24.11.2023
- Country
- Guatemala
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors

26 opposition protesters arrested, sentenced to prison for ‘disturbing public order’
- Published at
- 22.11.2023
- Country
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- protest
- extractive industries
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

Détention de journalists; suspension d’un groupe de médias jusqu’à nouvel ordre pour sa couverture du coup d’état militaire au Niger
- Published at
- 20.11.2023
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- censorship
- journalist detained
- prevention of protest