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India: Civic freedoms remain at risk with crackdown on protests, internet restrictions and denial of bail to activists
Published at
13.01.2026
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- funding restriction
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- women
- youth
Comoros: Right of journalists to keep sources secret is upheld after pressure; arrests of protesters
Published at
12.01.2026
Country
Comoros
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- access to info. law
- journalist detained
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
Japan: Hiroshima protesters arrested and forcibly removed while proposal for new anti-spy law raises concerns
Published at
06.01.2026
Country
Japan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
Convictions against dissent continue unabated
Published at
17.12.2025
Country
Algeria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- harassment
- hrd
- HRD acquitted
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- protest
- travel ban
Protesters rally against far-right’s inclusion in government, watchdogs warn of risks to press freedom
Published at
06.12.2025
Country
Czech Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- protest
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- women
Enforced Prosperity Narratives, Corruption-driven Internet Censorship, and Repression of Dissent at Home and Abroad
Published at
04.12.2025
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
Afghanistan: Taliban blocks the internet and social media, cracks down on the media and arrests activists
Published at
02.12.2025
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- harassment
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- killing of journalist
- labour rights
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
Cambodia: Authorities criminalise commentary and reporting on border conflict and prosecute and jail critics
Published at
01.12.2025
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- land rights
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
New Zealand: Authorities arrest climate and anti-militarisation protesters and introduce new restrictive bill to curb protests
Published at
25.11.2025
Country
New Zealand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- environmental rights
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
Tanzania’s Post-Election Crackdown: Widespread Violence, Arrests, and Suppression of Civic Freedoms
Published at
24.11.2025
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- excessive force
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- killing of protestors
- political interference
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- release of HRDs
- youth
Attacks on journalists reveal hostile environment around Bolivia's elections
Published at
24.11.2025
Country
Bolivia
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- enabling law
- excessive force
- extractive industries
- HRD threatened
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- labour rights
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- violent protest