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Media in Djibouti continues to be tightly controlled
Published at
30.10.2024
Country
Djibouti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- travel ban

Record sentences for climate activists, raids on journalists under Terrorism Act
Published at
29.10.2024
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

South Sudan parliament passes controversial National Security Bill
Published at
29.10.2024
Country
South Sudan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- restrictive law
- release of HRDs

Australia: Police use excessive force, criminalise protesters and sought to block protests through the courts
Published at
29.10.2024
Country
Australia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- refugees and migrants
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

Freedom of association under threat: criminalisation of environmental defenders and anti-NGO draft law passed
Published at
28.10.2024
Country
Paraguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- intimidation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship

Taiwan: Protests held to raise concerns around legislative reforms, Hong Kong and Palestine
Published at
28.10.2024
Country
Taiwan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest

Protesters clash amid rising polarisation over the 2025 elections
Published at
25.10.2024
Country
Bolivia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- enabling law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- private sector

La nueva ley de medios suscita críticas en vísperas de las elecciones generales
Published at
24.10.2024
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD threatened

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

Indonesia: Suppression of protests and crackdown on activism in Papua persisted ahead of President Prabowo’s inauguration
Published at
23.10.2024
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
- land rights

New Media Law draws criticism ahead of the country’s general elections
Published at
22.10.2024
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD threatened