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Brunei: UN Human Rights Council calls on government to repeal and review restrictive laws
Published at
22.01.2025
Country
Brunei Darussalam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest

Cambodia: Hun Manet government escalates its criminalisation of activists and critics to stifle dissent
Published at
17.01.2025
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- transnational repression
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights

Sri Lanka: Civic space restrictions and targeting of activists persist as new government takes power
Published at
13.01.2025
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Arrest of journalists and writer
Published at
06.01.2025
Country
Algeria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- restrictive law
- public vilification

Philippines: Activists remain at risk of red-tagging, disappearances and fabricated terrorism charges
Published at
06.01.2025
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- travel ban
- labour rights
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Interdiction systématique des manifestations; harcèlement judiciaire des défenseurs des droits humains
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- prevention of protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Crackdown on dissent over nuclear power plant, controversial media accreditation rules, and anti-‘’LGBTQI+ propaganda’’ measures
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Violence targets journalists and human rights defenders without end
Published at
22.11.2024
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

India: Death of human rights defender and continued repression of dissent highlights risks facing activists
Published at
20.11.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Killing of activist amidst wave of violence in Chiapas
Published at
18.11.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Des DDH, des journalistes et des magistrats enrôlés de force ; une douzaine de médias et de programmes suspendus
Published at
15.11.2024
Country
Burkina Faso
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- censorship