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Burundi faces allegations of widespread torture
- Published at
- 01.03.2024
- Country
- Burundi
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- positive CS development
- torture/ill-treatment
- enabling law
- HRD prosecuted
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Journalists remain at risk
- Published at
- 01.03.2024
- Country
- South Sudan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
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China: Activists and journalists face arrests and convictions despite UN human rights review
- Published at
- 01.03.2024
- Country
- China
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Concerns over new law which turns military into internal security institution
- Published at
- 29.02.2024
- Country
- Egypt
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
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Pro-Palestine protesters arrested in Bahrain
- Published at
- 29.02.2024
- Country
- Bahrain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD acquitted
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Cambodia: Ahead of upcoming UN review, Hun Manet’s government continues targeting activists and critics
- Published at
- 29.02.2024
- Country
- Cambodia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
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Legal reforms could enhance whistleblower safeguards and transparency in the public sector
- Published at
- 26.02.2024
- Country
- St Kitts and Nevis
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enabling law
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At least three killed in protests, other civic space violations as President Macky Sall delays presidential elections
- Published at
- 26.02.2024
- Country
- Senegal
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- political interference
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
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Kiribati: UN expert seeks answers on judicial crisis while death of fisheries observer remains unresolved
- Published at
- 23.02.2024
- Country
- Kiribati
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- environmental rights
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India: Modi government targets civil society groups and activists, suppresses protests and censors reporting as election draws near
- Published at
- 22.02.2024
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- office raid
- youth
- minority groups
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
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La Maison de la Presse suspendue jusqu’à nouvel ordre
- Published at
- 20.02.2024
- Country
- Niger
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- prevention of protest
- CSO closure