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Nicaragua: cierran cuarenta y cinco organizaciones de la sociedad civil en un mes
- Published at
- 20.09.2021
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- youth
- women
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- journalist detained
- CSO closure
- HRD detained
- non state actors
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- HRD prosecuted
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- land rights
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Activists and journalists at risk, crackdown on protests in Afghanistan following Taliban takeover
- Published at
- 15.09.2021
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- women
- harassment
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
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Closure of 45 civil society organisations within one month in Nicaragua
- Published at
- 09.09.2021
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- indigenous groups
- non state actors
- office raid
- torture/ill-treatment
- CSO closure
- HRD detained
- censorship
- HRD killing
- HRD prosecuted
- enforced disappearance
- sexual assault
- journalist detained
- land rights
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Turkmenistan’s government targets critics at home and abroad in its relentless crackdown on dissent
- Published at
- 09.09.2021
- Country
- Turkmenistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- internet restriction
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UN Special Rapporteur calls for an end to persecution of HRDs
- Published at
- 09.09.2021
- Country
- Egypt
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- restrictive law
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Nueva legislación autoriza un mayor control sobre los contenidos en internet
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- 03.09.2021
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- self censorship
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
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CSOs reveal the extent of the Bahraini Government's repressive surveillance operations
- Published at
- 01.09.2021
- Country
- Bahrain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- torture/ill-treatment
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Journalists covering Bangladesh face criminalisation, vilification and false copyright claims
- Published at
- 01.09.2021
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- refugees and migrants
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
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July 2021: Black weeks for Belarusian Civil Society
- Published at
- 26.08.2021
- Country
- Belarus
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- CSO closure
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- censorship
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More than a thousand killed in Myanmar as repression of activists continues unabated
- Published at
- 26.08.2021
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- HRD threatened
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Cuba: New legislation enables further control over online content, restricting freedom of expression
- Published at
- 25.08.2021
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- self censorship
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- HRD prosecuted