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Australia: Pro-Palestinian and climate protests met with restrictions, excessive force and arrests
- Published at
- 12.01.2024
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- place restrictions
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
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Australia: Anti-protest laws, arrest of protesters and prosecution of whistleblowers undermines civic freedoms
- Published at
- 25.07.2023
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
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Australia: Protesters face arrest while security laws are putting press freedom at risk
- Published at
- 23.03.2023
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- environmental rights
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Arrest of climate protesters, increasing anti-protest laws and continued prosecution of whistleblowers in Australia
- Published at
- 29.09.2022
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- restrictive law
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
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Civil society calls for human rights reforms as new government comes to power in Australia
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- 25.05.2022
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- negative court ruling
- environmental rights
- refugees and migrants
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Electoral law passed that will stifle charities in Australia while targeting of activists persists
- Published at
- 10.01.2022
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- censorship
- bureaucratic restriction
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Conviction of whistleblower, new NGO regulation another blow to civic freedoms in Australia
- Published at
- 03.09.2021
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
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Whistleblowers still facing prosecution in Australia, new harsh sanctions against charities proposed
- Published at
- 04.06.2021
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
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Australia commits to press freedom reforms, better whistle-blower protection around UN review
- Published at
- 10.02.2021
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- positive court ruling
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
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Secret whistle-blower hearings, overreach of security laws and arrest of protesters in Australia
- Published at
- 12.10.2020
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
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Continued concerns about privacy and freedoms in Australia, following civic space rating downgrade
- Published at
- 27.05.2020
- Country
- Australia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- environmental rights
- protestor(s) detained
- surveillance
- protest