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Papua New Guinea: Cybercrime law used to criminalise expression as government proceeds with restrictive media policy
Published at
10.02.2025
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
HRDs attacked and detained while monitoring protests; Clashes and detentions during nationwide protests
Published at
08.02.2025
Country
Ecuador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- access to info. law
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- internet restriction
- violent protest
- political interference
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
Police operation against Indigenous protest over water leaves dozens injured and detained
Published at
01.02.2025
Country
Brazil
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- excessive force
- intimidation
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- women
Bhutan: Restrictive funding requirements for civil society, defamation laws and detention of political prisoners
Published at
23.01.2025
Country
Bhutan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
Press freedom under pressure as crackdown on pro-Palestine solidarity continues
Published at
17.01.2025
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- non state actors
Malaysia: Government stifles expression, increases online controls and facilitates transnational repression
Published at
15.01.2025
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- place restrictions
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
Mauritania joins Partnership for Information and Democracy
Published at
10.01.2025
Country
Mauritania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest
- extractive industries
- protestor(s) detained
Activists & Whistle blowers continue to face assassination
Published at
31.12.2024
Country
South Africa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest
- extractive industries
- censorship
- journalist detained
- land rights
NGOs take legal action against the Sovereignty Protection Act
Published at
27.12.2024
Country
Hungary
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- negative court ruling
- protest
- public vilification
- censorship
Protesters mobilise in response to deadly floods and femicide
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
Mongolia: Civic freedoms at risk as prominent journalist jailed in closed-door hearings and protests against Putin‘s visit disrupted
Published at
03.12.2024
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained