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Free speech under siege as government launches new unit to tackle ‘misinformation’
- Published at
- 09.11.2020
- Country
- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- journalist detained
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
Le régulateur national des médias suspend douze journaux et menace de sanctions trois autres
- Published at
- 06.11.2020
- Country
- Chad
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- bureaucratic restriction
National media regulator suspends twelve newspapers, threatens three others with sanctions
- Published at
- 05.11.2020
- Country
- Chad
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
Journalist arrested, protesters denounce remarks by French president
- Published at
- 04.11.2020
- Country
- Somalia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- protest
- restrictive law
Manifestations contre l'impunité des crimes de guerre ; des journalistes et des militants menacés
- Published at
- 03.11.2020
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
Activists and journalists subjected to threats, offices independent weekly set on fire
- Published at
- 31.10.2020
- Country
- Mozambique
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- non state actors
- women
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- protest disruption
Tension in Haiti: protests, attacks against defenders and journalists
- Published at
- 31.10.2020
- Country
- Haiti
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of protestors
- youth
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- violent protest
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- non state actors
Civic freedom violations persist in Sri Lanka as the President expands his powers
- Published at
- 31.10.2020
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- protest
Honduras: land rights defender Arnold Joaquín Morazán Erazo and journalist Luis Almendares killed
- Published at
- 30.10.2020
- Country
- Honduras
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- extractive industries
- minority groups
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- environmental rights
- non state actors
Rights groups concerned at violation of migrant workers’ association rights, COVID-19 tracing apps
- Published at
- 30.10.2020
- Country
- Qatar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- labour rights
- CSO closure
- restrictive law
Protests against impunity war crimes in eastern DRC, journalists and HRD subjected to threats
- Published at
- 30.10.2020
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- excessive force
- journalist detained
- criminal defamation
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- prevention of protest
- HRD threatened