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Arbitrary detention of HRD as crackdown intensifies ahead of presidential elections
Published at
25.07.2024
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- protest
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law

Vietnam: Trade unionists, activists and journalist criminalised despite UN human rights review
Published at
18.07.2024
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Hong Kong: Assault on freedoms continue with new security law and crackdown around Tiananmen anniversary
Published at
04.07.2024
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

China: Authorities jail activists, stifle memory of the Tiananmen massacre and censor online critics
Published at
03.07.2024
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- minority groups
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Dual personality cult, arbitrary travel bans and zero-tolerance approach to public criticism
Published at
13.06.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship

Tajikistan: On the road to total control?
Published at
12.06.2024
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Ongoing crackdown on civic space ahead of COP29 as more activists, journalists detained
Published at
12.06.2024
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- environmental rights

Violations on expression and peaceful assembly remain a concern against the backdrop of protests
Published at
31.05.2024
Country
Iran
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- women
- religious groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- negative court ruling
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Opposition leaders bear the brunt of dissent
Published at
31.05.2024
Country
Ethiopia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Afghanistan: Detention, criminalisation and torture of activists continue as the UN Human Rights Council reviews its record
Published at
23.05.2024
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

North Korea: Thousands held in prison camps while authorities maintain control over speech and clothing
Published at
07.05.2024
Country
North Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- harassment
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- surveillance