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Government critics face continued harassment, journalists face restrictions, assault and arrest
Published at
18.02.2022
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- office raid
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Authorities arresting protesters and failing to address reprisals against activists in the Maldives
Published at
18.02.2022
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
Increasing Twitter takedowns by Japan while teachers and Okinawans hold protests
Published at
16.02.2022
Country
Japan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- censorship
- labour rights
- protest
- land rights
At least 790 people prosecuted and 172 already convicted for protesting in Cuba
Published at
15.02.2022
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
Palestinian CSOs branded ‘terrorist organisations’ and surveilled by Pegasus spyware
Published at
15.02.2022
Country
Palestine
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- internet restriction
- funding restriction
- youth
- attack on journalist
- bureaucratic restriction
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
Nicaragua: juzgan y condenan a varios presos políticos
Published at
15.02.2022
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- religious groups
- CSO closure
- negative court ruling
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted
Despite UN rights review, attacks on press freedom continue in PNG with suspension of journalist
Published at
15.02.2022
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- women
- political interference
Manifestantes toman las calles para protestar contra el FMI y la minería a gran escala
Published at
14.02.2022
Country
Argentina
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- protest
- attack on HRD
- negative court ruling
- violent protest
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- HRD prosecuted
- extractive industries
- environmental rights
- land rights
CSO left out of participation process; media obstructed in reporting on event
Published at
11.02.2022
Country
North Macedonia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- bureaucratic restriction
- environmental rights
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
Afghan women activists abducted by the Taliban while journalists arrested and beaten
Published at
11.02.2022
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
Civic space remains ‘obstructed’ in Fiji as media attacked, climate march blocked
Published at
09.02.2022
Country
Fiji
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- protest disruption
- protest
- public vilification