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Journalists arrested, media outlets criticised over critical reporting
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Ethiopia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- public vilification
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Opposition and civic space blatantly restricted ahead and after presidential election
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Cameroon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- intimidation
- harassment
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- internet restriction
- violent protest
- political interference
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- youth
- place restrictions
Attacks on press freedom and peaceful assembly in Liberia: Journalists face violence, abduction, and censorship
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Liberia
Tags:
- youth
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- non state actors
Suspension of media outlets, journalists detained and prosecuted
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Benin
Tags:
- transnational repression
- negative court ruling
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- enabling law
- censorship
- journalist detained
Lawyer Bob Kaben Massouka detained; Journalist Rosie Pioth faces death threats; Prefect bans peaceful march
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Republic of the Congo
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted
Vietnam: Regime targets human rights defenders working on minority, indigenous, land and environmental rights despite UN review
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- religious groups
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
Authorities Tighten Rights Clampdown in Western Sahara, Youths hold mass Protests
Published at
28.10.2025
Country
Morocco
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
Lebanon’s Civic Space faces Triple Pressures — State, Israel, and Hezbolla
Published at
28.10.2025
Country
Lebanon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- harassment
- HRD threatened
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- killing of journalist
- non state actors
- protest
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- restrictive law
Authorities increasingly using judicial harassment to silence opposition
Published at
28.10.2025
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- transnational repression
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- violent protest
- political interference
Broad crackdown on people commemorating the anniversary of the declaration of the Republic in Yemen
Published at
28.10.2025
Country
Yemen
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- non state actors
Madagascar : l’armée s’empare du pouvoir après une série de manifestations menées par la jeunesse et réprimées dans le sang
Published at
28.10.2025
Country
Madagascar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- extractive industries
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- time,place restrictions
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained