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Sri Lanka: Civic space restrictions and targeting of activists persist as new government takes power
Published at
13.01.2025
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Protests erupt after court annuls presidential election results
Published at
10.01.2025
Country
Romania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- intimidation
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification

Kiribati: Court hears appeal from Judge Lambourne as ruling party stays in power
Published at
07.01.2025
Country
Kiribati
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference

Arrest of journalists and writer
Published at
06.01.2025
Country
Algeria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- restrictive law
- public vilification

Philippines: Activists remain at risk of red-tagging, disappearances and fabricated terrorism charges
Published at
06.01.2025
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- travel ban
- labour rights
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

NGOs take legal action against the Sovereignty Protection Act
Published at
27.12.2024
Country
Hungary
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- negative court ruling
- protest
- public vilification
- censorship

South Korea: Short-lived martial law decree signal of civic space regression under President Yoon
Published at
20.12.2024
Country
South Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- excessive force
- protest
- protestor(s) detained

Interdiction systématique des manifestations; harcèlement judiciaire des défenseurs des droits humains
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- prevention of protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Crackdown on dissent over nuclear power plant, controversial media accreditation rules, and anti-‘’LGBTQI+ propaganda’’ measures
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Activists, journalists and bloggers arrested and jailed while new decrees to control associations and the internet come into effect
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Afghanistan: Arrests of activists and crackdown on journalists persists as the Taliban ramp up their controls on women
Published at
18.12.2024
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- journalist detained