Attempts to circumvent state censorship and surveillance to access news from South Korea Published at 12.02.2018 Country North Korea Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship surveillance internet restriction Read more
Space for trade unions and workers to organise continues to close in Egypt Published at 09.02.2018 Country Egypt Category Latest Developments Tags: labour rights restrictive law Read more
Civil society alarmed over blocking of critical websites Published at 08.02.2018 Country Belarus Category Latest Developments Tags: harassment labour rights protest internet restriction political interference restrictive law censorship environmental rights Read more
Continuous wave of persecution against HRDs and WHRDs Published at 05.02.2018 Country Saudi Arabia Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained women restrictive law Read more
Head of Chechen human rights NGO detained and staff threatened Published at 05.02.2018 Country Russia Category Latest Developments Tags: office raid religious groups intimidation harassment HRD detained negative court ruling labour rights restrictive law HRD threatened Read more
New penal code could threaten civic space in Oman Published at 02.02.2018 Country Oman Category Latest Developments Tags: journalist detained protestor(s) detained negative court ruling HRD prosecuted restrictive law Read more
Thousands protest over social ills in Iraqi Kurdistan, facing tear gas and live ammunition Published at 02.02.2018 Country Iraq Category Latest Developments Tags: office raid harassment attack on journalist excessive force protest killing of protestors torture/ill-treatment violent protest journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
Media report numbers of protesters declining by end of 2017 Published at 29.01.2018 Country Belarus Category Latest Developments Tags: journalist detained protest Read more
Save the Children staff killed in terror attack Published at 26.01.2018 Country Afghanistan Category Latest Developments Tags: killing of protestors attack on HRD restrictive law attack on journalist protest non state actors Read more
Swaziland: State's heavy-handed suppression of civic space Published at 26.01.2018 Country Eswatini Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation attack on journalist labour rights excessive force protest violent protest censorship protestor(s) detained Read more
Nicaraguan government interferes with citizen activism and closes space for opposition Published at 25.01.2018 Country Nicaragua Category Latest Developments Tags: women prevention of protest political interference intimidation harassment censorship Read more
New Year starts with criminalisation of protests and continued repression Published at 24.01.2018 Country Venezuela Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling protest disruption women release of HRDs travel ban excessive force killing of protestors torture/ill-treatment violent protest censorship protestor(s) detained Read more
