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Death of Fr Swamy and increasing online restrictions highlights risk facing activists in India
- Published at
- 09.07.2021
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- HRD killing
- land rights
Indian authorities continue to stifle dissent and persecute activists despite pandemic surge
- Published at
- 04.05.2021
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- attack on HRD
- protest
- journalist detained
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- HRD threatened
Indian authorities target activists, journalists as they suppress support for the farmers’ protests
- Published at
- 24.02.2021
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Persecution of activists, raids in Kashmir and increasing restrictions on foreign funding in India
- Published at
- 12.01.2021
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- journalist detained
- CSO closure
- restrictive law
- HRD detained
- protest
Activists, academics and journalists in India face judicial harassment despite pandemic
- Published at
- 16.09.2020
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- women
- harassment
- attack on journalist
In India the situation of activists and journalists remains precarious under the COVID-19 lockdown
- Published at
- 06.05.2020
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- refugees and migrants
- restrictive law
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted
Civil society calls on authorities to address police inaction and hate speech around Delhi violence
- Published at
- 28.02.2020
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- religious groups
- minority groups
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
Discriminatory citizenship law sparks a month of protests in India and brutal response from police
- Published at
- 13.01.2020
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- excessive force
- protest
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- killing of protestors
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
- torture/ill-treatment
Ongoing attacks against environmental activists and journalists in India while critics harassed
- Published at
- 10.09.2019
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- environmental rights
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- extractive industries
- time,place restrictions
- non state actors
- HRD threatened
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- restrictive law
- minority groups
- land rights
Civil society concerned about risks to fundamental freedoms in Kashmir as special status revoked
- Published at
- 13.08.2019
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- minority groups
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- excessive force
Raid on Lawyers Collective by Indian police aimed to ‘intimidate and silence’ them
- Published at
- 13.07.2019
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- harassment
- refusal of registration
- HRD prosecuted