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Abductions and Restricted Trials Documented Ahead of the elections
Published at
29.08.2025
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
Former parliamentarians and Bedoon rights defender targeted, migrant workers at risk of abuse
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- political interference
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Online activist & religious preacher imprisoned, Omani HRD banned from entering Lebanon
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Oman
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- transnational repression
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
Kenya’s Repression Deepens: 65 more Killed in protests, Blogger Tortured & killed
Published at
26.08.2025
Country
Kenya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- people with disabilities
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
- sexual assault
- transnational repression
Detained internet activists on trial and hunger strike
Published at
26.08.2025
Country
Qatar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
TURMOIL IN TOGO OVER CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND PRESIDENT FAURE’S CONTINUED RULE
Published at
18.08.2025
Country
Togo
Tags:
- youth
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
Thailand: Ongoing judicial harassment of human rights defenders and protesters while civil society amnesty bill proposal rejected
Published at
08.08.2025
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- transnational repression
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
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
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