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India: Indigenous movement banned, protests stifled while activists and journalists targeted
Published at
01.03.2025
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- extractive industries
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

Teachers protest over unpaid wages as the country approaches general elections
Published at
28.02.2025
Country
Belize
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest

First female Prime Minister; Legislation on same-sex marriage enters into force
Published at
27.02.2025
Country
Liechtenstein
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI

Indonesia: Crackdown on protests, stifling of expression and repression in Papua continues in Prabowo’s first four months in power
Published at
27.02.2025
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights

Bill threatens media independence, activist arrested amidst Mozambique's disputed elections
Published at
26.02.2025
Country
Zimbabwe
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship

Pakistan: Government criminalises activists, increases online controls and cracks down on protests by the opposition and ethnic groups
Published at
26.02.2025
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- women
- minority groups
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- place restrictions

Burqa ban; transnational repression against Tibetans and Uyghurs; UNRWA funding stop
Published at
25.02.2025
Country
Switzerland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- protest
- restrictive law
- surveillance

New laws restricting freedom of peaceful assembly introduced as anti-government protests continue
Published at
24.02.2025
Country
Georgia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Afghanistan: The Taliban threatens to shutdown NGOs employing women and continues to criminalise activists and journalists
Published at
21.02.2025
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Protests erupt in response to surprise coalition with controversial party, court rules freedom of information protects LGBTQI+ public representation
Published at
20.02.2025
Country
Lithuania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- religious groups
- protest
- surveillance

Violations to peaceful assembly documented ahead of 2025 elections
Published at
20.02.2025
Country
Malawi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- negative court ruling
- protest
- violent protest
- censorship
- journalist detained