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India: Death of human rights defender and continued repression of dissent highlights risks facing activists
Published at
20.11.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

India: Activists and journalists continued to be targeted around elections despite UN Human Rights Committee scrutiny
Published at
22.08.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

India: Crackdown on the opposition, divisive rhetoric and targeting of activists and critics persists around the elections
Published at
29.05.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- restrictive law
- journalist detained

India: Modi government targets civil society groups and activists, suppresses protests and censors reporting as election draws near
Published at
22.02.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- office raid
- youth
- minority groups
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

India: Raids on journalists and activists escalate while those reporting on Manipur and Kashmir are silenced
Published at
30.10.2023
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- extractive industries
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

India: Ahead of the G20 summit, human rights defenders face raids, arrests and detention while impunity persists in Manipur
Published at
17.08.2023
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- internet restriction
- environmental rights

India: Government continues crackdown on civil society and harassment of journalists as it hosts the G20
Published at
31.05.2023
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Amid UN scrutiny, documentary on Modi censored, activists remain in detention and repression in Kashmir continues
Published at
24.02.2023
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- office raid
- harassment
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Government agencies used to silence dissent in India as its rights record is scrutinised at the UN
Published at
22.11.2022
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- prevention of protest
- protest disruption
- office raid
- excessive force
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Indian authorities criminalise activists and bulldoze homes of protesters to silence dissent
Published at
01.08.2022
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- harassment
- youth
- women
- attack on HRD
- journalist detained
- HRD detained

Arbitrary travel restrictions, harassment of activists and targeting of journalists in India
Published at
15.04.2022
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- women
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained