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Venezuela: continued harassment of civil society groups and journalists
- Published at
- 06.04.2023
- Country
- Venezuela
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- non state actors
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Cuba: journalists detained and threatened
- Published at
- 04.04.2023
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- private sector
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Protesters continue Karabakh blockade, farmers’ protest violently dispersed
- Published at
- 31.03.2023
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- environmental rights
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Journalists imprisoned for spreading “fake news” about the Russian Army
- Published at
- 22.03.2023
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- office raid
- CSO closure
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
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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
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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:
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
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Venezuela: la draconiana ley de ONG amenaza a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil
- Published at
- 21.02.2023
- Country
- Venezuela
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- censorship
- labour rights
- protest
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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
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- women
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
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Political prisoners in Nicaragua under serious risk
- Published at
- 07.02.2023
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
- religious groups
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Venezuela: draconian NGO Law threatens civil society organisations
- Published at
- 06.02.2023
- Country
- Venezuela
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
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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
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- LGBTI
- women
- surveillance
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted