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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
La criminalización y la vigilancia ilegal de las PDDH hacen saltar las alarmas
Published at
13.05.2025
Country
El Salvador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- office raid
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- environmental rights
- land rights
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
Repression of Environmental Defenders, and crackdown on Opposition and Press Intensifies
Published at
30.04.2025
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- transnational repression
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- extractive industries
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Disappearance, killings and stigmatisation of search collective members; Mexico’s press faces deadly start to 2025
Published at
30.04.2025
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- protest
- internet restriction
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
Les massacres bouleversent le pays, des journalistes et des travailleurs humanitaires sont victimes d’attaques
Published at
25.04.2025
Country
Haiti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- hrd
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- sexual assault
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- non state actors
Criminalisation and unlawful surveillance of human rights defenders raise alarms
Published at
18.04.2025
Country
El Salvador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- office raid
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- environmental rights
- land rights
Mass killings; Multiple attacks against journalists and aid workers
Published at
10.04.2025
Country
Haiti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- hrd
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- sexual assault
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- non state actors
Union leader and journalist killed as HRDs face attacks and criminalisation
Published at
05.04.2025
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Press freedom in Turkey continues to deteriorate amid arrests and prosecutions of journalists
Published at
31.03.2025
Country
Turkey
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- office raid
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- prevention of protest
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- journalist detained