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Government proscribes non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as “terrorist”
Published at
09.08.2025
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- CSO closure
- environmental rights
- HRD detained
- intimidation
- office raid
- people with disabilities
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- prevention of protest
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- refugees and migrants
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- youth
Thailand: Ongoing judicial harassment of human rights defenders and protesters while civil society amnesty bill proposal rejected
Published at
08.08.2025
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- transnational repression
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
Teachers criminalised over protest; NTUCB denounces anti-union practices
Published at
07.08.2025
Country
Belize
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- protest
Authorities restrict internet access after Israel's airstrikes, CSOs report on execution spree
Published at
07.08.2025
Country
Iran
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
Authorities use judicial harassment to silence activists
Published at
06.08.2025
Country
Tunisia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Severe assault on peaceful assembly & expression amid Israel's genocide in Gaza
Published at
06.08.2025
Country
Israel
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
- women
- refugees and migrants
- release of HRDs
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- place restrictions
Tonga: Defamation suit filed by MP while reports highlight press freedom concerns
Published at
06.08.2025
Country
Tonga
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- access to info. law
- restrictive law
Singapore: Harassment and criminalisation of activists, the media and critics under the Public Order Act and POFMA ahead and after elections
Published at
05.08.2025
Country
Singapore
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- youth
- harassment
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Clampdown on civic freedoms escalates amid Israel's ongoing genocide
Published at
04.08.2025
Country
Occupied Palestinian Territories
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- women
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- youth
- place restrictions
Clashes and detentions during protests over Evo Morales' presidential candidacy
Published at
02.08.2025
Country
Bolivia
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- excessive force
- extractive industries
- HRD prosecuted
- HRD threatened
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- labour rights
- positive court ruling
- private sector
- protest disruption
- violent protest
Corruption allegations against government worsen; anti-immigrant unrest; Supreme Court upholds amnesty for Catalan separatists
Published at
01.08.2025
Country
Spain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- refugees and migrants
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- private sector