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Samoa: Journalist charged with criminal defamation
Published at
04.09.2025
Country
Samoa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
Dominica: Protest against electoral reforms repressed
Published at
03.09.2025
Country
Dominica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
Court holds farmers’ association liable for protest blockade
Published at
02.09.2025
Country
Belize
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
Crackdown on media freedom and free speech in Senegal: Journalists detained, and media outlets suspended
Published at
31.08.2025
Country
Senegal
Tags:
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
Crackdown on protests, enforced disappearance/abduction and torture of activists, journalist
Published at
31.08.2025
Country
Guinea
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
Abductions and Restricted Trials Documented Ahead of the elections
Published at
29.08.2025
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
Exiled Nicaraguan opposition figure killed; UCR students targeted over peaceful protests
Published at
28.08.2025
Country
Costa Rica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD killing
- protest
- violent protest
- environmental rights
Former parliamentarians and Bedoon rights defender targeted, migrant workers at risk of abuse
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- political interference
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Online activist & religious preacher imprisoned, Omani HRD banned from entering Lebanon
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Oman
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- transnational repression
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
Prominent HRDs remain in prison despite Eid pardons for other prisoners
Published at
27.08.2025
Country
Bahrain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
Kenya’s Repression Deepens: 65 more Killed in protests, Blogger Tortured & killed
Published at
26.08.2025
Country
Kenya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- people with disabilities
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
- sexual assault
- transnational repression