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Continuous crackdown on civil society
- Published at
- 11.03.2023
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Civic space takes further hit from Taliban's deplorable NGO ban for women as activists and journalists continued to be targeted
- Published at
- 22.02.2023
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force

Jailing and persecution of activists and journalists persists despite election of Vietnam to the UN Human Rights Council
- Published at
- 08.02.2023
- Country
- Vietnam
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- women
- censorship

Political prisoners in Nicaragua under serious risk
- Published at
- 07.02.2023
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
- religious groups
- political interference
- HRD threatened

Journalists and activists continue to be given long jail sentences on fabricated charges nearly two years on from the illegal coup
- Published at
- 31.12.2022
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- HRD prosecuted
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- LGBTI
- women
- surveillance
- protestor(s) detained

Protests met with detention and disruption, activists detained
- Published at
- 30.12.2022
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- prevention of protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Increasing internet censorship and ongoing persecution of dissenting voices, despite some releases
- Published at
- 30.12.2022
- Country
- Turkmenistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- internet restriction
- release of HRDs
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened
- restrictive law

International community turns a blind eye as Saudi Arabia increases oppression of HRDs and civil society
- Published at
- 30.12.2022
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- women

UAE civil society fears crackdown ahead of COP28
- Published at
- 30.12.2022
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- release of HRDs

Prominent human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja convicted on new charges
- Published at
- 30.12.2022
- Country
- Bahrain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted

New Law on Foreign Agents could undermine civil society work
- Published at
- 30.12.2022
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law