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Chad: A violent and repressed electoral context
Published at
10.05.2024
Country
Chad
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- killing of journalist
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

Attacks on journalists escalate; crackdown on protesters in Choluteca; another social leader killed in the Bajo Aguán region
Published at
06.05.2024
Country
Honduras
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- killing of journalist
- violent protest
- land rights

Opposition activists and journalists bear the brunt of police excesses
Published at
30.04.2024
Country
Burundi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Civic space deteriorates further as “foreign agent”-style NGO law is adopted and media crackdown widens
Published at
25.04.2024
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- place restrictions
- office raid
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Interdiction de manifestations et de rassemblements contre la réforme constitutionnelle controversée et arrestation d’un journaliste
Published at
22.04.2024
Country
Togo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance

Protests and meetings over controversial constitutional reform banned; journalist arrested
Published at
19.04.2024
Country
Togo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance

Draconian Cybercrime law used to target protesters, HRDs, journalists amid pro-Palestine protests
Published at
18.04.2024
Country
Jordan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Prominent Bedoon Rights Defender Mohammed Al-Barghash sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour
Published at
16.04.2024
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

No respite for journalists as restrictions and attacks continue
Published at
15.04.2024
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained

Bangladesh: Criminalisation of activists and crackdown on protests continue following one-sided elections
Published at
12.04.2024
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors

Colombia’s crisis: wave of violence against human rights defenders; Tear gas and stun grenades disrupt peaceful Women’s Day March
Published at
11.04.2024
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- office raid
- minority groups
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- non state actors