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No respite for journalists as restrictions and attacks continue
Published at
15.04.2024
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained

Bangladesh: Criminalisation of activists and crackdown on protests continue following one-sided elections
Published at
12.04.2024
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors

Colombia’s crisis: wave of violence against human rights defenders; Tear gas and stun grenades disrupt peaceful Women’s Day March
Published at
11.04.2024
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- minority groups
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Threats against Indigenous environmental defenders; protest over new Machu Pichu ticketing system
Published at
10.04.2024
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- protest
- public vilification
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Singapore: Harassment of pro-Palestinian, anti-death penalty activism and misuse of POFMA law to silence dissent
Published at
05.04.2024
Country
Singapore
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- restrictive law
- women
- protest

Tanzania's opposition holds country's first major protests in seven years
Published at
29.03.2024
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- internet restriction
- censorship
- youth
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained

LGBTQI+ activist & CSO, opposition leaders and whistle blower face attack, restrictions & Intimidation
Published at
29.03.2024
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- refusal of registration
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- surveillance

Pakistan: New government continues blocking the internet and persecuting journalists and activists
Published at
25.03.2024
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- people with disabilities

Thailand: Activists criminalised including in the Deep South while Move Forward party faces disbandment
Published at
20.03.2024
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Qatari authorities continue to target prominent HRD Abdullah Al-Maliki
Published at
15.03.2024
Country
Qatar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- intimidation

Journalists and activists killed in Mexico amidst widespread impunity
Published at
14.03.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- non state actors
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- political interference
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted