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Tajikistan's Crackdown on Dissent: Erosion of Rights and Civic Space
Published at
17.02.2025
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- religious groups
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Thailand: Prosecution of activists and transnational repression persist as government takes its place on UN rights body
Published at
14.02.2025
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

Maldives: Protesters charged while authorities fail to reinstate the registration of a civil society group
Published at
13.02.2025
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- labour rights
- restrictive law
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained

Les autorités suspendent plusieurs groupes dont l'organisation de défense des droits humains REDHAC
Published at
12.02.2025
Country
Cameroon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained

Arbitrary detention of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja for 5,000 days, and prisoners dying due to medical negligence
Published at
10.02.2025
Country
Bahrain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted

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

Delayed wages trigger protest at The Gleaner newspaper
Published at
07.02.2025
Country
Jamaica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- women
- labour rights
- protest

Human rights organisation welcomes the fall of the Al-Assad Government
Published at
06.02.2025
Country
Syria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment

Human rights organisation REDHAC and others suspended by the authorities
Published at
05.02.2025
Country
Cameroon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained

Singapore: Government continues its crackdown on anti-death penalty activism and other forms of expression
Published at
05.02.2025
Country
Singapore
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- youth
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Protests erupt over labour rights and public services amid state of emergency
Published at
04.02.2025
Country
Trinidad and Tobago
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- labour rights
- protest