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Indonesia: Authorities target and vilify activists, block film screenings, crackdown on protests while impunity for violations continues
Published at
28.08.2026
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- harassment
- HRD prosecuted
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- labour rights
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- negative court ruling
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- torture/ill-treatment
- youth
Tonga: Journalist threatened as radio station faces licence revocation for defamation
Published at
26.08.2026
Country
Tonga
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- intimidation
- women
Afghanistan: Five years after Taliban takeover, the attack on civic freedoms persists
Published at
26.08.2026
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- harassment
- HRD detained
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- office raid
- protest
- surveillance
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
Samoa: Opposition leader arrested as its press freedom rankings fall
Published at
24.08.2026
Country
Samoa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
Sri Lanka: Rapper, writer and journalists targeted amid proposal of a restrictive NGO law and ongoing impunity for past crimes
Published at
24.08.2026
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- environmental rights
- harassment
- intimidation
- protest
- protest disruption
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- women
Press freedom protections strengthen amid threats and attacks on journalists; Workers and environmental groups mobilise
Published at
21.08.2026
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- environmental rights
- harassment
- labour rights
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest
Harsher penalties proposed for unlawful gatherings
Published at
21.08.2026
Country
Mauritius
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- labour rights
- LGBTI
- place restrictions
- protest
- protest disruption
Vietnam: Activists, religious actors, book publishers and journalists criminalised as new retaliatory decree on lawyers comes into effect
Published at
21.08.2026
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- harassment
- HRD prosecuted
- minority groups
- negative court ruling
- religious groups
- restrictive law
- transnational repression
- women
Protests met with excessive force; New Penal Code reform retains restrictions on civic freedoms
Published at
19.08.2026
Country
Dominican Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- enabling law
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- extractive industries
- intimidation
- labour rights
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
India: Student protests met with arrests, excessive force, surveillance and harassment amid civic space clampdown
Published at
18.08.2026
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- excessive force
- harassment
- HRD detained
- indigenous groups
- internet restriction
- negative court ruling
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- release of HRDs
- restrictive law
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- youth
South Korea: Concerns about censorship, restrictive national security law and indictment of protesters
Published at
18.08.2026
Country
South Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- LGBTI
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- youth