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Suspension of human rights NGOs indicates further crackdown on critical voices
Published at
31.12.2024
Country
Ethiopia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of protestors
- journalist detained

Civil society actors continue to be targeted whilst Saudi Arabia is confirmed as host of the 2034 FIFA men’s World Cup
Published at
31.12.2024
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- release of HRDs

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

Mass protests over power outages; New law deepens government control over speech
Published at
21.11.2024
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors

Turkmenistan: Economic hardship, repression, and targeting of critics at home and abroad
Published at
19.11.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- censorship

Expulsan a 135 personas presas políticas y cierran 1500 OSC en un mes
Published at
15.11.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship

Civic freedoms under threat amid disputed presidential elections
Published at
09.11.2024
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained

Persecution of opposition leaders & activists unrelenting, gatherings banned
Published at
30.10.2024
Country
Eswatini
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted