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Forced loyalty, fear, and censorship: Turkmenistan’s relentless assault on civic freedoms
Published at
23.06.2025
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained

Afghanistan: Activists targeted, media restricted as women further silenced by the Taliban
Published at
13.06.2025
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- office raid
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained

Freedoms under threat as Uzbekistan continues to put pressure on journalists and human rights defenders
Published at
04.06.2025
Country
Uzbekistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained

China: Regime continues to jail activists and target critical artists, film makers and musicians
Published at
29.05.2025
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Hong Kong: Government targets activists in exile, their families at home while last major opposition party disbands
Published at
21.05.2025
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- transnational repression
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

Local government in the Kurdistan Region continues to commit serious human rights violations
Published at
15.05.2025
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Ethiopia's Intensifying Crackdown: Arbitrary CSO suspensions, Censorship & Political Repression
Published at
07.05.2025
Country
Ethiopia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Court rejects the appeals of 53 people in the “UAE84” case and organisations express concern for other persecuted HRDs
Published at
30.04.2025
Country
United Arab Emirates
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- transnational repression

Civic space violations in Egypt under review
Published at
24.04.2025
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

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