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Myanmar: As assault on human rights persist civil society calls for review of failed ASEAN strategy
- Published at
- 19.05.2023
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- religious groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

North Korea: New restrictive law on language issued while regime punishes access to foreign media, international calls
- Published at
- 17.05.2023
- Country
- North Korea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- surveillance
- restrictive law
- censorship

Hong Kong: Authorities continue to use national security and sedition laws to detain activists and criminalise dissent
- Published at
- 04.05.2023
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Laos: Arrests for protest against potash mine while human rights defenders remain in jail
- Published at
- 02.05.2023
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights

Human rights organisations call for release of world’s longest detained journalists
- Published at
- 25.04.2023
- Country
- Eritrea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained

Human rights organisations call for the release of journalists and woman human rights defender Fatima Saleh Al-Arwali
- Published at
- 25.04.2023
- Country
- Yemen
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Compendium of Documents Published to Facilitate Public Understanding of Historic Koblenz Universal Jurisdiction Verdict
- Published at
- 25.04.2023
- Country
- Syria
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling

Restrictions and arrests precede Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly held in Bahrain
- Published at
- 20.04.2023
- Country
- Bahrain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction

Proposed election law sparks protests, CSOs denounce new framework to monitor online content
- Published at
- 20.04.2023
- Country
- Iraq
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

China: Human rights defenders jailed, protesters detained and activists harassed around the National People's Congress
- Published at
- 13.04.2023
- Country
- China
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- surveillance
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

En Cuba, los periodistas son blanco de amenazas y detenciones
- Published at
- 12.04.2023
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- private sector