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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

North Korea: Regime maintains its control of society through bans on foreign media and cross-border communications, surveillance and repressive laws
Published at
31.01.2025
Country
North Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- surveillance
- restrictive law
- intimidation

Activists, journalists and bloggers arrested and jailed while new decrees to control associations and the internet come into effect
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Afghanistan: Arrests of activists and crackdown on journalists persists as the Taliban ramp up their controls on women
Published at
18.12.2024
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- journalist detained

Hong Kong: Jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists, Stand News editors and critics highlights climate of repression
Published at
28.11.2024
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted

China: Human rights defenders criminalised as well as face harassment, surveillance and transnational repression
Published at
27.11.2024
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted