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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

Protesters clash with police on the fifth anniversary of the student-led mass protests in Santiago
Published at
17.12.2024
Country
Chile
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- excessive force
- protestor(s) detained

Mongolia: Civic freedoms at risk as prominent journalist jailed in closed-door hearings and protests against Putin‘s visit disrupted
Published at
03.12.2024
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

El Salvador added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist
Published at
02.12.2024
Country
El Salvador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- public vilification
- HRD acquitted
- access to info. law
- environmental rights

La criminalización de las personas defensoras del medioambiente y la aprobación del proyecto de ley anti-ONG amenazan la libertad de asociación
Published at
28.11.2024
Country
Paraguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- intimidation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship

Hong Kong: Jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists, Stand News editors and critics highlights climate of repression
Published at
28.11.2024
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted

China: Human rights defenders criminalised as well as face harassment, surveillance and transnational repression
Published at
27.11.2024
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

Violence targets journalists and human rights defenders without end
Published at
22.11.2024
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Mass protests over power outages; New law deepens government control over speech
Published at
21.11.2024
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors

India: Death of human rights defender and continued repression of dissent highlights risks facing activists
Published at
20.11.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained