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Abductions and Restricted Trials Documented Ahead of the elections
Published at
29.08.2025
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
Exiled Nicaraguan opposition figure killed; UCR students targeted over peaceful protests
Published at
28.08.2025
Country
Costa Rica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD killing
- protest
- violent protest
- environmental rights
Former parliamentarians and Bedoon rights defender targeted, migrant workers at risk of abuse
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- political interference
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Online activist & religious preacher imprisoned, Omani HRD banned from entering Lebanon
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Oman
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- transnational repression
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
Prominent HRDs remain in prison despite Eid pardons for other prisoners
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Bahrain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
Kenya’s Repression Deepens: 65 more Killed in protests, Blogger Tortured & killed
Published at
26.08.2025
Country
Kenya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- people with disabilities
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
- sexual assault
- transnational repression
Detained internet activists on trial and hunger strike
Published at
26.08.2025
Country
Qatar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Saint Lucia: Supreme Court decriminalises consensual same-sex conduct
Published at
25.08.2025
Country
Saint Lucia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest
Afghanistan: Escalation in crackdown on journalists and expression four years since the Taliban takeover
Published at
25.08.2025
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
San Marino: Public service journalists denounce pressure
Published at
22.08.2025
Country
San Marino
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- political interference
Maldives: Civic freedoms at risk with new media bill, targeting of protesters and attacks on judicial independence
Published at
22.08.2025
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- excessive force
- protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained