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Authorities use judicial harassment to silence activists
Published at
06.08.2025
Country
Tunisia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Severe assault on peaceful assembly & expression amid Israel's genocide in Gaza
Published at
06.08.2025
Country
Israel
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
- women
- refugees and migrants
- release of HRDs
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- place restrictions
Singapore: Harassment and criminalisation of activists, the media and critics under the Public Order Act and POFMA ahead and after elections
Published at
05.08.2025
Country
Singapore
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- youth
- harassment
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Brunei: Government rejects UN Human Rights Council recommendations on civic freedoms
Published at
01.08.2025
Country
Brunei Darussalam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
Diplomatic Rift with Belgium sparks NGO Funding Restrictions
Published at
31.07.2025
Country
Rwanda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
Pakistan: Authorities systematically target Baloch and other activists on baseless charges, block social media and criminalise journalists
Published at
28.07.2025
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Philippines: Activists face red-tagging, arbitrary arrests and financing terrorism charges around mid-term elections
Published at
24.07.2025
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
L'espace civique continue de se détériorer sous le régime militaire
Published at
15.07.2025
Country
Niger
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- journalist detained
Renewed attacks on foreign-funded NGOs, protest restrictions despite protective court ruling, and ongoing prosecution of critics
Published at
11.07.2025
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- refusal of registration
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- non state actors
Cambodia: Activists, journalists and opposition leaders detained, denied bail while dissidents may face citizenship revocation
Published at
10.07.2025
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
Protesters mark 100 days since İmamoğlu’s arrest; Istanbul Pride and Trans Pride violently repressed
Published at
02.07.2025
Country
Turkey
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- office raid
- women
- youth
- intimidation
- labour rights
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained