Human rights defender and journalist arrested and charged, later released Published at 20.01.2020 Country Chad Category Latest Developments Tags: harassment HRD detained journalist detained HRD prosecuted release of HRDs Read more
Hundreds released as National Dialogue on Anglophone crisis concludes, others remain in prison Published at 20.01.2020 Country Cameroon Category Latest Developments Tags: youth HRD detained release of HRDs Read more
President Kagame Denies Spying on Opponents Abroad Published at 14.01.2020 Country Rwanda Category Latest Developments Tags: surveillance religious groups Read more
Government tightens reins on civic freedoms during the last year Published at 14.01.2020 Country Tanzania Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI attack on HRD refugees and migrants intimidation harassment release of HRDs HRD detained travel ban torture/ill-treatment political interference restrictive law bureaucratic restriction censorship journalist detained HRD threatened Read more
Discriminatory citizenship law sparks a month of protests in India and brutal response from police Published at 13.01.2020 Country India Category Latest Developments Tags: prevention of protest excessive force protest youth protest disruption intimidation harassment killing of protestors HRD detained internet restriction protestor(s) detained non state actors torture/ill-treatment Read more
Activists disappeared or arrested in Pakistan while media faces restrictions and threats Published at 08.01.2020 Country Pakistan Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women bureaucratic restriction intimidation HRD detained excessive force censorship enforced disappearance protestor(s) detained torture/ill-treatment restrictive law HRD prosecuted Read more
Brunei authorities convict and sentence critic in absentia for sedition Published at 07.01.2020 Country Brunei Darussalam Category Latest Developments Tags: restrictive law criminal defamation Read more
Journalist detained for four days despite press offences being decriminalised Published at 06.01.2020 Country Gabon Category Latest Developments Tags: journalist detained Read more
Kazakhstan: A tightening grip on civil society: ongoing persecution of activists across the country Published at 23.12.2019 Country Kazakhstan Category Latest Developments Tags: refusal of registration criminal defamation protest prevention of protest HRD acquitted censorship protestor(s) detained protest disruption women release of HRDs harassment surveillance HRD detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Honduras: amenazas y ataques contra las mujeres defensoras de los DD. HH. Published at 20.12.2019 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling LGBTI protest disruption indigenous groups attack on HRD women intimidation HRD killing labour rights protest internet restriction killing of journalist environmental rights Read more
Women human rights defenders are targets of threats and attacks in Honduras Published at 18.12.2019 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: internet restriction killing of journalist positive court ruling LGBTI protest disruption indigenous groups attack on HRD women intimidation HRD killing labour rights protest environmental rights Read more
Journalists and activists targeted as many fear regression of rights following Sri Lankan elections Published at 15.12.2019 Country Sri Lanka Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling women intimidation harassment surveillance HRD threatened protest Read more
