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Prominent Bedoon Rights Defender Mohammed Al-Barghash sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour
- Published at
- 16.04.2024
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
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No respite for journalists as restrictions and attacks continue
- Published at
- 15.04.2024
- Country
- Somalia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
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Singapore: Harassment of pro-Palestinian, anti-death penalty activism and misuse of POFMA law to silence dissent
- Published at
- 05.04.2024
- Country
- Singapore
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- restrictive law
- women
- protest
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Tanzania's opposition holds country's first major protests in seven years
- Published at
- 29.03.2024
- Country
- Tanzania
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- internet restriction
- censorship
- youth
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
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LGBTQI+ activist & CSO, opposition leaders and whistle blower face attack, restrictions & Intimidation
- Published at
- 29.03.2024
- Country
- Uganda
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- refusal of registration
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- surveillance
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Pakistan: New government continues blocking the internet and persecuting journalists and activists
- Published at
- 25.03.2024
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- people with disabilities
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Thailand: Activists criminalised including in the Deep South while Move Forward party faces disbandment
- Published at
- 20.03.2024
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Qatari authorities continue to target prominent HRD Abdullah Al-Maliki
- Published at
- 15.03.2024
- Country
- Qatar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- intimidation
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Philippines: Harassment and criminalisation of activists persist despite concerns raised by UN rights experts
- Published at
- 14.03.2024
- Country
- Philippines
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- killing of journalist
- HRD prosecuted
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Sri Lanka: Authorities continue to stifle protests, harass activists and push repressive laws
- Published at
- 07.03.2024
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
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Israel's bombardment of Palestine erodes civic freedoms for Palestinians
- Published at
- 05.03.2024
- Country
- Palestine
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- minority groups
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained