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Lack of accountability for Pashtun rights protesters killed and injured in North Waziristan
- Published at
- 04.07.2019
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- surveillance
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of protestors
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Blogger Murdered in Pakistan
- Published at
- 11.07.2016
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- protest disruption
- excessive force

Authorities in Pakistan shut down critical women's rights group
- Published at
- 02.11.2016
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- office raid
- CSO closure
- surveillance
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- non state actors
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship

Little room for dissent in Pakistan: Civic freedoms under constant attack
- Published at
- 12.05.2017
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- bureaucratic restriction
- non state actors

Sounding the alarm over sharp increase in enforced disappearances
- Published at
- 08.01.2018
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment

Human rights activists abducted and ill-treated for protesting against illegal occupation of lakes
- Published at
- 25.01.2018
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- intimidation
- harassment
- environmental rights
- protest

Pashtun protests continue despite pressure from authorities
- Published at
- 01.05.2018
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- self censorship
- funding restriction
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- protest
- enforced disappearance

Blatant attempts to manipulate elections and assault civic freedoms, says Pakistani civil society
- Published at
- 23.07.2018
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- surveillance
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- torture/ill-treatment
- attack on journalist
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- journalist detained
- political interference
- non state actors

Civil society says shutting down of international NGOs an ‘attack on civic freedoms’
- Published at
- 17.10.2018
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- women
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Activists disappeared or arrested in Pakistan while media faces restrictions and threats
- Published at
- 08.01.2020
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- bureaucratic restriction
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- protestor(s) detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted

Pashtun activists targeted amid pandemic while press increasingly muzzled in Pakistan
- Published at
- 12.05.2020
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- harassment
- journalist detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- political interference
- protest disruption
- women
- censorship