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Burundi: President silences critics and “illegally” taxes citizens in lead up to referendum
- Published at
- 22.02.2018
- Country
- Burundi
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD detained
- political interference
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
2017 - "a bad year for journalists" in Lebanon and 2018 already cause for concern
- Published at
- 21.02.2018
- Country
- Lebanon
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- criminal defamation
Excessive force used during protests against pension reforms later passed by Congress
- Published at
- 21.02.2018
- Country
- Argentina
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- violent protest
- excessive force
- protestor(s) detained
Civil society worries over chilling effect of Holocaust Law on free speech
- Published at
- 21.02.2018
- Country
- Poland
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- political interference
- restrictive law
Morocco shuns international recommendations on civic space
- Published at
- 20.02.2018
- Country
- Morocco
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
Lawyers outside Bar Association of Azerbaijan hindered from practicing profession
- Published at
- 20.02.2018
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- LGBTI
- women
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
Civil society organisations advocate for ban on seabed mining in Vanuatu's waters
- Published at
- 19.02.2018
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- environmental rights
Protesters and journalists arrested and ill-treated under state of emergency
- Published at
- 19.02.2018
- Country
- Maldives
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
State suspends two newspapers claiming the existence of political prisoners in the country
- Published at
- 16.02.2018
- Country
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- violent protest
- political interference
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
Journalists, human rights defenders and artists persecuted and harassed in Cuba
- Published at
- 16.02.2018
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- harassment
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
Bulgaria assumes EU presidency under cloud of concern over media freedom
- Published at
- 15.02.2018
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest
- political interference
- environmental rights