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Crackdown on human rights defenders continues in Nicaragua
Published at
30.05.2023
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- CSO closure

Afghanistan: Activists, academics and journalists continue to be targeted as UN talks sideline women’s voices
Published at
25.05.2023
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Myanmar: As assault on human rights persist civil society calls for review of failed ASEAN strategy
Published at
19.05.2023
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- religious groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

North Korea: New restrictive law on language issued while regime punishes access to foreign media, international calls
Published at
17.05.2023
Country
North Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- surveillance
- restrictive law
- censorship

Hong Kong: Authorities continue to use national security and sedition laws to detain activists and criminalise dissent
Published at
04.05.2023
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Laos: Arrests for protest against potash mine while human rights defenders remain in jail
Published at
02.05.2023
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights

Human rights organisations call for release of world’s longest detained journalists
Published at
25.04.2023
Country
Eritrea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained

Human rights organisations call for the release of journalists and woman human rights defender Fatima Saleh Al-Arwali
Published at
25.04.2023
Country
Yemen
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Compendium of Documents Published to Facilitate Public Understanding of Historic Koblenz Universal Jurisdiction Verdict
Published at
25.04.2023
Country
Syria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling

Restrictions and arrests precede Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly held in Bahrain
Published at
20.04.2023
Country
Bahrain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction

Proposed election law sparks protests, CSOs denounce new framework to monitor online content
Published at
20.04.2023
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights