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Pressure on civil society continues; Activists detained on International Women's Day
Published at
27.03.2025
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
Cuba releases political prisoners, but crackdown on civic freedoms remains
Published at
21.03.2025
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- protestor(s) detained
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- women
Laos: UN raises concerns on civic space restrictions for ethnic cultural groups and women activists
Published at
03.03.2025
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- surveillance
- minority groups
- bureaucratic restriction
New legislative amendments to further simplify designating NGOs as extremist, arrests of protesters commemorating anniversary of Navalny’s death
Published at
01.03.2025
Country
Russia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- restrictive law
Afghanistan: The Taliban threatens to shutdown NGOs employing women and continues to criminalise activists and journalists
Published at
21.02.2025
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- HRD prosecuted
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
Myanmar: Four years after coup, junta increases legal restrictions and continues its persecution of political prisoners
Published at
19.02.2025
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
Tajikistan's Crackdown on Dissent: Erosion of Rights and Civic Space
Published at
17.02.2025
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- religious groups
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Arbitrary detention of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja for 5,000 days, and prisoners dying due to medical negligence
Published at
10.02.2025
Country
Bahrain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted
Human rights organisation welcomes the fall of the Al-Assad Government
Published at
06.02.2025
Country
Syria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
North Korea: Regime maintains its control of society through bans on foreign media and cross-border communications, surveillance and repressive laws
Published at
31.01.2025
Country
North Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- surveillance
- restrictive law
- intimidation
Presidential election “a formality”, fundamental freedoms remain severely repressed
Published at
27.01.2025
Country
Belarus
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- transnational repression
- release of HRDs