Activists, journalists and bloggers arrested and jailed while new decrees to control associations and the internet come into effect Published at 19.12.2024 Country Vietnam Category Latest Developments Tags: women HRD detained negative court ruling criminal defamation restrictive law journalist detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
Afghanistan: Arrests of activists and crackdown on journalists persists as the Taliban ramp up their controls on women Published at 18.12.2024 Country Afghanistan Category Latest Developments Tags: women harassment HRD detained protest torture/ill-treatment censorship journalist detained Read more
Hong Kong: Jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists, Stand News editors and critics highlights climate of repression Published at 28.11.2024 Country Hong Kong Category Latest Developments Tags: women HRD detained negative court ruling criminal defamation restrictive law bureaucratic restriction HRD prosecuted Read more
China: Human rights defenders criminalised as well as face harassment, surveillance and transnational repression Published at 27.11.2024 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women minority groups transnational repression harassment HRD detained labour rights protest censorship journalist detained surveillance HRD prosecuted Read more
Turkmenistan: Economic hardship, repression, and targeting of critics at home and abroad Published at 19.11.2024 Country Turkmenistan Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation release of HRDs transnational repression travel ban internet restriction censorship Read more
Expulsan a 135 personas presas políticas y cierran 1500 OSC en un mes Published at 15.11.2024 Country Nicaragua Category Latest Developments Tags: indigenous groups office raid CSO closure minority groups intimidation release of HRDs religious groups attack on journalist travel ban public vilification restrictive law censorship Read more
Civic freedoms under threat amid disputed presidential elections Published at 09.11.2024 Country Venezuela Category Latest Developments Tags: youth journalist detained intimidation transnational repression travel ban HRD detained excessive force enforced disappearance internet restriction killing of protestors violent protest restrictive law censorship access to info. law protestor(s) detained Read more
Persecution of opposition leaders & activists unrelenting, gatherings banned Published at 30.10.2024 Country Eswatini Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on HRD harassment negative court ruling public vilification prevention of protest surveillance HRD prosecuted Read more
Media in Djibouti continues to be tightly controlled Published at 30.10.2024 Country Djibouti Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship travel ban Read more
135 political prisoners expelled from Nicaragua; closure of 1,500 CSOs within one month Published at 23.10.2024 Country Nicaragua Category Latest Developments Tags: indigenous groups office raid CSO closure minority groups intimidation release of HRDs religious groups attack on journalist travel ban public vilification restrictive law censorship Read more
Uzbekistan: Pressure on bloggers and journalists continues, including on Karakalpak activists Published at 15.10.2024 Country Uzbekistan Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction attack on HRD intimidation HRD detained refusal of registration criminal defamation torture/ill-treatment censorship access to info. law minority groups release of HRDs negative court ruling labour rights internet restriction journalist detained HRD threatened HRD prosecuted self censorship transnational repression Read more
Detienen y procesan arbitrariamente a PDDH; la provincia de Annobon se queda sin internet Published at 10.10.2024 Country Equatorial Guinea Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption HRD detained refusal of registration excessive force enforced disappearance internet restriction restrictive law protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
