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Media and CSOs fear targeting as "sovereignty" law passed
Published at
16.01.2024
Country
Hungary
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- negative court ruling
- protest
- public vilification
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship

One Indigenous and two Quilombola leaders killed within months
Published at
10.01.2024
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- criminal defamation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship

Clashes during protests in La Paz lead to protester detentions and attacks on journalists
Published at
05.01.2024
Country
Bolivia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on journalist
- protest
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

Protests held in Cape Town over Israel's siege on Gaza
Published at
30.12.2023
Country
South Africa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest

Human rights defender arrested, charged
Published at
04.12.2023
Country
Gambia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- HRD prosecuted

Anti-LGBTQI+ protests held across Malawi
Published at
02.12.2023
Country
Malawi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- youth
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- protestor(s) detained

Maldives: As new government takes power, civil society calls for reforms including ending impunity for crimes against journalists
Published at
01.12.2023
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- protest

Malaysia: Bookstores raided, news portal blocked, activists criminalised and sedition law used to stifle dissent
Published at
28.11.2023
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- land rights

Elections marred by escalating organised crime violence, surge in attacks on journalists and media workers
Published at
27.11.2023
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- protest
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
- environmental rights
- land rights

26 opposition protesters arrested, sentenced to prison for ‘disturbing public order’
Published at
22.11.2023
Country
Côte d'Ivoire
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- protest
- extractive industries
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

Détention de journalists; suspension d’un groupe de médias jusqu’à nouvel ordre pour sa couverture du coup d’état militaire au Niger
Published at
20.11.2023
Country
Benin
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- censorship
- journalist detained
- prevention of protest