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Turkmenistan: Economic hardship, repression, and targeting of critics at home and abroad
Published at
19.11.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- censorship

Expulsan a 135 personas presas políticas y cierran 1500 OSC en un mes
Published at
15.11.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship

Civic freedoms under threat amid disputed presidential elections
Published at
09.11.2024
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained

Persecution of opposition leaders & activists unrelenting, gatherings banned
Published at
30.10.2024
Country
Eswatini
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

Media in Djibouti continues to be tightly controlled
Published at
30.10.2024
Country
Djibouti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- travel ban

135 political prisoners expelled from Nicaragua; closure of 1,500 CSOs within one month
Published at
23.10.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship

Uzbekistan: Pressure on bloggers and journalists continues, including on Karakalpak activists
Published at
15.10.2024
Country
Uzbekistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- access to info. law
- minority groups
- release of HRDs
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- self censorship
- transnational repression

Detienen y procesan arbitrariamente a PDDH; la provincia de Annobon se queda sin internet
Published at
10.10.2024
Country
Equatorial Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Myanmar: Arbitrary arrests, torture of political prisoners and digital repression used to crush the anti-junta movement
Published at
04.10.2024
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

HRDs arbitrarily arrested, prosecuted; internet shutdown in Annobon province
Published at
02.10.2024
Country
Equatorial Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Alarm over surge in executions and death sentences, WHRDs remain in prison
Published at
30.09.2024
Country
Iran
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors