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Hundreds of people released, including prominent HRDs and prisoners of conscience
Published at
24.04.2025
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs

Authorities block planned protest
Published at
23.04.2025
Country
Eswatini
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- attack on HRD
- labour rights

CSOs document violations committed by various parties involved in the current conflict
Published at
09.04.2025
Country
Yemen
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD acquitted
- censorship

Cuba libera a personas encarceladas por motivos políticos, pero sigue reprimiendo las libertades cívicas
Published at
28.03.2025
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Cuba releases political prisoners, but crackdown on civic freedoms remains
Published at
21.03.2025
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Laos: UN raises concerns on civic space restrictions for ethnic cultural groups and women activists
Published at
03.03.2025
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- surveillance
- minority groups
- bureaucratic restriction

Afghanistan: The Taliban threatens to shutdown NGOs employing women and continues to criminalise activists and journalists
Published at
21.02.2025
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Myanmar: Four years after coup, junta increases legal restrictions and continues its persecution of political prisoners
Published at
19.02.2025
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law

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

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

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