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Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire re-arrested, court ruling deals blow to freedom of expression
Published at
27.10.2025
Country
Rwanda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- political interference
Censorship & protests follow trial of First Vice President Riek Machar
Published at
27.10.2025
Country
South Sudan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- protest
- censorship
- HRD threatened
Partial win as court strikes out parts of the 'Patriotic Act'
Published at
27.10.2025
Country
Zimbabwe
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Philippines: Crackdown and arrest of anti-corruption protesters and ongoing targeting of activists
Published at
27.10.2025
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- labour rights
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
Women, HRDs, Migrant support NGOs, journalists & online critics face systematic violations
Published at
26.10.2025
Country
Libya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- non state actors
- women
- refugees and migrants
- release of HRDs
- negative court ruling
- protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- youth
CAR’s civic space under pressure as December 2025 elections loom; Law on the protection of HRDs adopted
Published at
26.10.2025
Country
Central African Republic
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
Government intensifies crackdown on opposition & online spaces ahead of 2025 elections
Published at
26.10.2025
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
Madagascar: Military seizes power following sustained, deadly youth-led protests
Published at
17.10.2025
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
Sri Lanka: Authorities crackdown on protest in Mannar and continue to harass activists and journalists
Published at
16.10.2025
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- excessive force
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- land rights
UN experts warn of ‘’chilling’’ impact as assault on media, journalists and activists intensifies
Published at
14.10.2025
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Le régime militaire du Burkina Faso étouffe les voix de l’opposition et limite l’activisme de la société civile ainsi que la liberté d’expression
Published at
02.10.2025
Country
Burkina Faso
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- enabling law
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- LGBTI
- transnational repression
- violent protest