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Violations during tense electoral period; HRDs and whistleblowers continue to be intimidated, arrested and prosecuted
Published at
27.09.2024
Country
Madagascar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- non state actors
Prominent HRD detained, released on condition to sign pledge
Published at
18.09.2024
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- release of HRDs
Journalists targeted as Claudia Sheinbaum elected Mexico’s first female president; Protest for water rights turns deadly
Published at
16.09.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- HRD acquitted
- HRD prosecuted
Repressive new laws threaten civic space
Published at
15.09.2024
Country
Angola
Category
Latest Developments
Civic space violations ahead of 9 October general elections
Published at
15.09.2024
Country
Mozambique
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- protest
- journalist detained
DRC resumes executions; civic space restrictions of all sorts
Published at
13.09.2024
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Authorities embark on widespread crackdown ahead of SADC summit
Published at
11.09.2024
Country
Zimbabwe
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- self censorship
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Another Kakataibo leader killed; new report finds top state officials potentially liable in protest deaths
Published at
10.09.2024
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
At least three Indigenous leaders murdered; Attacks on journalists raise press freedom concerns
Published at
05.09.2024
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
Thailand: Opposition party dissolved while activists criminalised and attacked
Published at
02.09.2024
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- refugees and migrants
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
authorities clamp down on freedoms ahead of local and general elections
Published at
31.08.2024
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- political interference
- release of HRDs