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Alarm at surge in executions in Saudi Arabia
Published at
27.10.2025
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
HRD dismissed from Ministry role in retaliation for peaceful activism
Published at
26.10.2025
Country
Oman
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- negative court ruling
Journalists receives new sentence ahead of planned release from prison
Published at
26.10.2025
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD prosecuted
- restrictive law
WHRDs at risk of execution with targeted death sentences for peaceful activism
Published at
26.10.2025
Country
Iran
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted
Relentless assault on dissent and opposition a cause for serious concern
Published at
26.10.2025
Country
Burundi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- journalist detained
Deaths in custody and enforced disappearances increase concern over systematic repression in Nicaragua
Published at
18.10.2025
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
Repression continues even after one of the largest prisoner releases of Lukashenko’s rule
Published at
29.09.2025
Country
Belarus
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD killing
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Hong Kong: Ongoing criminalisation of expression, bounties on activists in exile and suppression of Tiananmen anniversary
Published at
26.09.2025
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- transnational repression
- harassment
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
China: Regime continues to criminalise activists, increase digital restrictions and deploy transnational repression against protesters
Published at
22.09.2025
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- negative court ruling
- protest disruption
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- transnational repression
- women
Online activist & religious preacher imprisoned, Omani HRD banned from entering Lebanon
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Oman
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- transnational repression
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
Prominent HRDs remain in prison despite Eid pardons for other prisoners
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Bahrain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction