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Cambodia: Activists, journalists and opposition leaders detained, denied bail while dissidents may face citizenship revocation
Published at
10.07.2025
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- environmental rights
- land rights

Papua New Guinea: Facebook briefly blocked, journalists sacked while concerns increase about lawsuits to silence expression
Published at
09.07.2025
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- restrictive law

Deadly train crash anniversary marked by massive protests; Government survives censure motion
Published at
08.07.2025
Country
Greece
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- refugees and migrants
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- violent protest
- political interference
- HRD acquitted
- protestor(s) detained

Taiwan: Citizen groups harassed for recall vote while funding cuts impact civil society
Published at
08.07.2025
Country
Taiwan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- harassment
- labour rights
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- land rights
- non state actors

Commission to investigate attacks on CSOs under PiS; Volunteer prosecuted for assisting asylum seeker at border
Published at
07.07.2025
Country
Poland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Japan: Court throws out defamation lawsuit against journalist while activist sentenced in Okinawa for protests against US bases
Published at
04.07.2025
Country
Japan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- negative court ruling
- protest
- protestor(s) detained

Closure of news agency; expulsion of journalist
Published at
03.07.2025
Country
Seychelles
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- journalist detained
- environmental rights

Vietnam: Regime criminalises activists on trumped up charges and labels aid group as ‘terrorists’
Published at
01.07.2025
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

Sri Lanka: New government silences dissent and disrupts protests while impunity for past crimes persists
Published at
30.06.2025
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

El acoso y las agresiones contra las personas defensoras del medioambiente y líderes indígenas evidencian el fracaso del marco legal de protección
Published at
24.06.2025
Country
Chile
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- private sector
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- journalist detained
- environmental rights

South Korea: Activists criminalised, satire censored amidst political transition
Published at
24.06.2025
Country
South Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted