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Sri Lanka: Authorities continue to target activists, stifle protests and silence journalists, as elections draw near
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- place restrictions
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- excessive force
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- surveillance
Restrictions persist amidst Rwanda’s elections
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Rwanda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction

Writer and online activist Mohammed Ali Bakhit (Abu Ali Al-Barami) acquitted
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Oman
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- HRD detained
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Bangladesh: Brutal crackdown on quota reform protesters by security forces and ruling party youth wing
Published at
25.07.2024
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

Ongoing attacks against environmental defenders, with one park ranger killed
Published at
16.07.2024
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- HRD threatened

Philippines: Harassment and targeting of activists, NGOs continue despite formation of new human rights ‘super body’
Published at
15.07.2024
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- youth
- harassment
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Mali: Military authorities suspend activities of political parties and associations; several CSOs dissolved
Published at
03.07.2024
Country
Mali
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Beyond the Tax Bill: Nationwide protests reject rogue kakistocracy, government double-speak and executive excesses
Published at
02.07.2024
Country
Kenya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

CAR: Thousands of human rights violations; prosecution of opponents and unsafe conditions for NGOs
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Central African Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- public vilification
- political interference
- criminal defamation
- intimidation

Former National Assembly candidate sentenced to prison, exiled blogger targeted
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Authorities clamp down on expression
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Somaliland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- release of HRDs
- intimidation