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Venezuelan WHRD detained and exiled defenders shot amid ongoing crackdown
Published at
22.11.2025
Country
Venezuela
Tags:
- access to info. law
- attack on HRD
- enforced disappearance
- excessive force
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- killing of journalist
- labour rights
- non state actors
- office raid
- positive court ruling
- protest
- surveillance
- transnational repression
- travel ban
L'opposition et l'espace civique sont soumis à des restrictions flagrantes avant et après l'élection présidentielle
Published at
21.11.2025
Country
Cameroon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- harassment
- HRD prosecuted
- indigenous groups
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- killing of protestors
- negative court ruling
- office raid
- place restrictions
- political interference
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- violent protest
- youth
Malaysia: Protests restricted, activists harassed and critics silenced as courts push back
Published at
18.11.2025
Country
Malaysia
Tags:
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- women
Attempt to use arcane provision of labour code to quash flight attendants’ strike
Published at
16.11.2025
Country
Canada
Tags:
- censorship
- excessive force
- intimidation
- labour rights
- LGBTI
- negative court ruling
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- religious groups
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- violent protest
Escazú Agreement sees progress, but HRDs continue to be targeted
Published at
15.11.2025
Country
Chile
Tags:
- enabling law
- environmental rights
- extractive industries
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- negative court ruling
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- violent protest
- youth
Las muertes bajo custodia y las desapariciones forzadas aumenta la preocupación por la represión sistemática
Published at
14.11.2025
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- HRD threatened
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- public vilification
- transnational repression
- travel ban
Comoros: Students arrested during protest; Unaccredited journalist forbidden to practise
Published at
10.11.2025
Country
Comoros
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- access to info. law
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
Une personnalité de l’opposition condamnée, des rassemblements pacifiques perturbés et des journalistes arrêtés et poursuivis
Published at
06.11.2025
Country
Chad
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- bureaucratic restriction
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- political interference
- protest disruption
Les défenseurs djiboutiens des droits humains intensifient leurs revendications internationales sur fond de répression incessante
Published at
06.11.2025
Country
Djibouti
Tags:
- censorship
- harassment
- hrd
Gabon: Coup leader wins elections; free press still in the making
Published at
03.11.2025
Country
Gabon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
National human rights institution warns that civic space in France is under threat
Published at
01.11.2025
Country
France
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- CSO closure
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- funding restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- LGBTI
- office raid
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- self censorship
- surveillance
- women