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Cuba: frustration over power shortages leads to recurrent protests
- Published at
- 01.10.2022
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- surveillance
- protest

Saudi civil society at serious risk as global energy crisis leads US and others to abandon human rights commitments
- Published at
- 23.09.2022
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- censorship
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment

The UAE continues to arbitrarily detain prisoners of conscience well past completion of their sentences
- Published at
- 23.09.2022
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD acquitted
- HRD detained

Civil society urges the UN to reject Vietnam’s bid for the Human Rights Council as it continues to arrest and jail activists
- Published at
- 21.09.2022
- Country
- Vietnam
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- women
- minority groups
- protest disruption
- travel ban
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

Myanmar junta continues to arrest, torture activists despite global outrage around executions
- Published at
- 15.09.2022
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Escalating tensions & crackdown on human rights defenders & journalists
- Published at
- 12.09.2022
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on journalist
- protest
- internet restriction
- violent protest
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- excessive force
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

A year of Taliban rule leaves civic space decimated in Afghanistan
- Published at
- 08.09.2022
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- journalist detained
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force

Nicaragua: cierre de OSC, radios comunitarias y un canal de televisión por cable
- Published at
- 02.09.2022
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- HRD prosecuted
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- women
- indigenous groups
- religious groups
- labour rights
- protest
- self censorship
- youth
- protest disruption
- office raid
- restrictive law
- CSO closure
- harassment
- journalist detained
- environmental rights

Amid protests, censorship and persecution of Uyghurs and activists in China, Xi Jinping seeks third term
- Published at
- 01.09.2022
- Country
- China
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- surveillance
- women
- minority groups
- negative court ruling
- protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Nicaragua: closure of CSOs, community radio stations, and television cable channel
- Published at
- 23.08.2022
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- office raid
- censorship
- religious groups
- journalist detained
- environmental rights
- restrictive law
- harassment
- women
- labour rights
- travel ban
- HRD prosecuted
- indigenous groups
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- self censorship
- youth
- protest
- protest disruption

Reports and monitoring missions document extreme repression and violence against activists
- Published at
- 18.08.2022
- Country
- Iraq
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest disruption
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- censorship
- harassment
- positive CS development
- HRD killing