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Arrests of activists, journalists continue in Myanmar as military tribunals impose harsh sentences
Published at
10.05.2022
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Cuba: continúan los juicios de manifestantes; la reforma del código penal proponen más restricciones
Published at
03.05.2022
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- youth
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

Venezuela: censorship of independent media online and detention of elderly woman for satirical video
Published at
28.04.2022
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- self censorship
- internet restriction
- private sector
- youth
- protest
- women
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- enforced disappearance
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- censorship

Civic freedoms continue to deteriorate in the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Published at
28.04.2022
Country
Russia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened

WHRD Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe returns home after years of prolonged arbitrary detention
Published at
28.04.2022
Country
Iran
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- internet restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Cuba: prosecutions against protesters continue; more restrictions are proposed in Penal Code reform
Published at
20.04.2022
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- harassment
- funding restriction
- protest
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

Ethiopia: Journalists bear the brunt of declining expression
Published at
15.04.2022
Country
Ethiopia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- office raid
- release of HRDs

New laws impose stiffer restrictions on CSOs & media, journalist killed
Published at
12.04.2022
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- harassment
- protest
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- protestor(s) detained

Activists and journalists in China face persecution during and after Winter Olympics
Published at
11.04.2022
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- women
- HRD prosecuted

New repressive measures after January 2022 events in Kazakhstan, ahead of presidential elections
Published at
25.03.2022
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Venezuela: estigmatización y censura de los medios de comunicación a principios de 2022
Published at
24.03.2022
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- non state actors
- protest
- intimidation