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Protests violently dispersed and student leaders expelled
- Published at
- 06.09.2016
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- excessive force
Protests by students and motorcycle drivers break out in Benin
- Published at
- 05.07.2016
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- protest

All student organisations suspended in Benin
- Published at
- 10.10.2016
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure

Offices of news agency raided in defamation case
- Published at
- 07.11.2016
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- office raid
- protest

TV and radio stations suspended without prior notice
- Published at
- 22.12.2016
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- bureaucratic restriction

President overturns ban on opposition protest
- Published at
- 04.09.2017
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest

Outcry over jamming and hacking of radio stations and blocking of online news outlet
- Published at
- 20.12.2017
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- censorship
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest
- non state actors

Social unrest in response to new law inhibiting certain public sectors' right to strike
- Published at
- 22.03.2018
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- protest disruption
- women

Trade unions suspend 4-month strike
- Published at
- 25.05.2018
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- political interference
- labour rights
- protest

Media regulator suspends La Nouvelle Tribune newspaper
- Published at
- 04.07.2018
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction

Investigative journalist sentenced to 18 months in prison
- Published at
- 30.01.2020
- Country
- Benin
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- bureaucratic restriction