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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
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
President Kagame Denies Spying on Opponents Abroad
Published at
14.01.2020
Country
Rwanda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- religious groups
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
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:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
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
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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
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:
- protest disruption
- women
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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
Death threats intensify after civil society questions changes to criminal code
Published at
19.12.2019
Country
Serbia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD threatened
- public vilification
Women human rights defenders are targets of threats and attacks in Honduras
Published at
18.12.2019
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