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Two environmental defenders and local journalist killed
Published at
14.06.2025
Country
Guatemala
Blogger, activists released from prison; protests dispersed and protesters detained
Published at
30.05.2025
Country
Angola
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- release of HRDs
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Political Repression escalates ahead of elections, apparent coordinated cross-border repression of HRDs a cause for concern
Published at
30.05.2025
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
From Hope to Censorship: Journalists Face Renewed Persecution in Somaliland
Published at
30.05.2025
Country
Somaliland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
State Cracks down on Journalists Reporting on Insecurity in Somalia
Published at
30.05.2025
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- non state actors
Controversial PVO Amendment Bill enacted, pressure on journalists continues
Published at
30.05.2025
Country
Zimbabwe
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- negative court ruling
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Politically motivated prosecutions amid declining media and civic space
Published at
27.05.2025
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- place restrictions
- office raid
- religious groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
Silencing Dissent: Arrests, Censorship and Deadly Protests
Published at
13.05.2025
Country
South Sudan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- intimidation
- protest
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- journalist detained
Burundi Under Scrutiny: UN Condemns Killings, Disappearances, and Crackdown on Freedoms
Published at
13.05.2025
Country
Burundi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- negative court ruling
- non state actors
- political interference
- release of HRDs
Leading presidential candidate detained after announcing bid; Subsequent protests brutally repressed
Published at
02.05.2025
Country
Turkey
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- sexual assault
- minority groups
- intimidation
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Mozambique: Hundreds of deaths, over 4,200 arrested in crackdown on post-election protests
Published at
30.04.2025
Country
Mozambique
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained