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Closing civic space in Brazil: censorship, harassment and attacks on journalists and activists
Published at
18.12.2020
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- violent protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- political interference
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- women
- environmental rights
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- land rights

Pandemic in Brazil aggravates democratic backslide
Published at
25.08.2020
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- positive court ruling
- surveillance
- restrictive law
- harassment
- protest
- HRD killing
- women
- political interference
- excessive force
- killing of journalist
- labour rights
- prevention of protest
- internet restriction
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- extractive industries
- indigenous groups
- public vilification

Journalists under assault in Brazil with judicial harassment, smear campaigns and vilification
Published at
28.03.2020
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- political interference
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- positive court ruling

Activists criminalised and continuous delegitimisation of press in Brazil
Published at
07.01.2020
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- HRD prosecuted
- minority groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- political interference
- positive court ruling
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- environmental rights

Brazil: defenders vilified and criminalised, censorship and attacks against media on the rise
Published at
31.10.2019
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- LGBTI

Jair Bolsonaro’s first 100 days in office demonstrate Brazilian president’s disregard for pluralism
Published at
13.05.2019
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- access to info. law
- protest

Two land activists murdered in Brazil
Published at
18.12.2018
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- extractive industries
- environmental rights
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest
- land rights

Brazil continues to be a hostile place for journalists, two killed in recent months
Published at
19.09.2018
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- women
- indigenous groups
- HRD killing
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Human Rights Defender Rivelino Zarpellon continues to face threats
Published at
21.06.2018
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- HRD threatened
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- positive CS development
- protest

Black feminist activist and politician assassinated in Rio de Janeiro
Published at
06.04.2018
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- women
- excessive force
- censorship
- protest

Brazil: A hostile place for journalists and activists with three killed in January
Published at
07.02.2018
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest