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China: Human rights defenders jailed, protesters detained and activists harassed around the National People's Congress
Published at
13.04.2023
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- surveillance
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

En Cuba, los periodistas son blanco de amenazas y detenciones
Published at
12.04.2023
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- private sector

Opposition politicians convicted in absentia of “conspiring to seize power”, crackdown on civil society and critical voices continues
Published at
06.04.2023
Country
Belarus
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Venezuela: continued harassment of civil society groups and journalists
Published at
06.04.2023
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- non state actors

Cuba: journalists detained and threatened
Published at
04.04.2023
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- private sector

Protesters continue Karabakh blockade, farmers’ protest violently dispersed
Published at
31.03.2023
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- environmental rights

Journalists imprisoned for spreading “fake news” about the Russian Army
Published at
22.03.2023
Country
Russia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- office raid
- CSO closure
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Continuous crackdown on civil society
Published at
11.03.2023
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Civic space takes further hit from Taliban's deplorable NGO ban for women as activists and journalists continued to be targeted
Published at
22.02.2023
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Venezuela: la draconiana ley de ONG amenaza a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil
Published at
21.02.2023
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- censorship
- labour rights
- protest

Jailing and persecution of activists and journalists persists despite election of Vietnam to the UN Human Rights Council
Published at
08.02.2023
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted