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Draft laws cause concern over potential violations of civic freedoms
Published at
10.01.2018
Country
Tunisia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
Government actions continue to drive people to the streets
Published at
09.01.2018
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- HRD acquitted
- time,place restrictions
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
Sweden's leaders condemn extremist and neo-Nazi groups' actions
Published at
09.01.2018
Country
Sweden
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- religious groups
- protest
Plans to release political prisoners as ethnic tensions spark clashes and protests
Published at
09.01.2018
Country
Ethiopia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- positive CS development
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- land rights
Tajikistan: LGBT CSO forced to close and state restricts online communications
Published at
09.01.2018
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- CSO closure
- censorship
- journalist detained
Sounding the alarm over sharp increase in enforced disappearances
Published at
08.01.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
Civic freedoms under threat from new laws in UK
Published at
08.01.2018
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- positive CS development
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- access to info. law
- surveillance
- private sector
Concerns over amendments to Georgia's laws on access to information and public broadcasting
Published at
08.01.2018
Country
Georgia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- LGBTI
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
Human rights lawyers bare the brunt of clampdown
Published at
05.01.2018
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- surveillance
Chilean Supreme Court decision: "Right to information overrides the right to be forgotten"
Published at
04.01.2018
Country
Chile
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
State reportedly kept independent candidates off the ballot in municipal elections
Published at
04.01.2018
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained