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CAR: Thousands of human rights violations; prosecution of opponents and unsafe conditions for NGOs
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Central African Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- public vilification
- political interference
- criminal defamation
- intimidation

Former National Assembly candidate sentenced to prison, exiled blogger targeted
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Authorities clamp down on expression
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Somaliland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- release of HRDs
- intimidation

Media and other independent actors face new restrictions
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained

New report: Tanzania improves in press freedom ranking, but violations continue
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- censorship
- journalist detained

Environmental Defenders under pressure for opposing controversial oil project
Published at
28.06.2024
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- non state actors
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- land rights

Three activists and journalists killed; Dozens detained and injured on International Women's Day
Published at
20.06.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- violent protest
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened

Thailand: Activists face increasing risk with death in custody, ongoing use of royal defamation law and transnational repression
Published at
20.06.2024
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- refugees and migrants
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

Flood coverage restrictions, women’s rights rally ban, and legal cases against activists
Published at
05.06.2024
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- LGBTI
- women
- refugees and migrants
- labour rights
- protest
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- transnational repression

Threats against critics persist
Published at
31.05.2024
Country
South Sudan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted

India: Crackdown on the opposition, divisive rhetoric and targeting of activists and critics persists around the elections
Published at
29.05.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- restrictive law
- journalist detained