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Independent Fact-Finding Mission a welcome step, but violations against HRDs, journalists continue
- Published at
- 21.08.2020
- Country
- Libya
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- office raid
- surveillance
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD threatened
Líderes independentistas catalanes bajo vigilancia y llamamientos para revisar la ley de mordaza
- Published at
- 21.08.2020
- Country
- Spain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
Activists and journalists facing harassment, being forcibly disappeared or killed in Pakistan
- Published at
- 21.08.2020
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained
Groups express concern over deteriorating media freedom
- Published at
- 20.08.2020
- Country
- Georgia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- self censorship
- protest
Bulgarians protest COVID-19 measures, over construction of coastline
- Published at
- 20.08.2020
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- intimidation
Hundreds dead after protests, fears over COVID-19 restrictions’ impact on free speech
- Published at
- 20.08.2020
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- violent protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- protestor(s) detained
Calls for political accountability after Beirut explosion: protesters, journalists face violence
- Published at
- 20.08.2020
- Country
- Lebanon
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- violent protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
Mass protests follow disputed election results
- Published at
- 20.08.2020
- Country
- Belarus
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- violent protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
Protests over government plans to withdraw from Istanbul Convention
- Published at
- 18.08.2020
- Country
- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- positive court ruling
- harassment
- protest
- excessive force
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Catalan independence leaders targeted by spyware; calls to revise ‘Gag Law’ on five-year anniversary
- Published at
- 18.08.2020
- Country
- Spain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- protest
- censorship
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- surveillance
- non state actors
Criminal defamation proposal will weaken democracy in Timor-Leste, says civil society
- Published at
- 18.08.2020
- Country
- Timor-Leste
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained