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Myanmar activists protesting internet ban criminalised while attacks against Rohingya continue
Published at
13.08.2020
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- non state actors
Venezuela stifles dissent with political interference in opposition parties and detentions
Published at
12.08.2020
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- intimidation
- negative court ruling
- political interference
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
Opposition candidates and supporters persecuted, detained ahead of elections
Published at
11.08.2020
Country
Belarus
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- HRD prosecuted
Popular Protests: Demonstrators, journalists and human rights defenders killed, attacked & silenced
Published at
07.08.2020
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD killing
- HRD detained
- protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- protest disruption
- violent protest
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights highlights continuing human rights violations
Published at
06.08.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD acquitted
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- harassment
- HRD killing
- HRD threatened
Repression of Liberal Publishing House, journalists and online critics escalates in Vietnam
Published at
30.07.2020
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted
Afghan human rights and media workers face attacks while new NGO law threatens civil society
Published at
08.07.2020
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- restrictive law
Critics detained for COVID-19 related remarks
Published at
07.07.2020
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions increase in Venezuela during pandemic
Published at
03.07.2020
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- people with disabilities
- non state actors
- youth
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- protest
- enforced disappearance
COVID-19, a pretext to further suppress freedom of expression and association
Published at
22.06.2020
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- harassment
- protest
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
At least 37 political prisoners in Nicaragua have presented COVID-19 symptoms say CSOs
Published at
15.06.2020
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- non state actors
- harassment
- intimidation