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Malaysia: Protests restricted, activists harassed and critics silenced as courts push back
Published at
18.11.2025
Country
Malaysia
Tags:
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- women
Gabon: Coup leader wins elections; free press still in the making
Published at
03.11.2025
Country
Gabon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
National human rights institution warns that civic space in France is under threat
Published at
01.11.2025
Country
France
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- CSO closure
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- funding restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- LGBTI
- office raid
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- self censorship
- surveillance
- women
Security of journalists at stake in several cases of assault
Published at
31.10.2025
Country
Ghana
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- hrd
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
Presidential elections in Côte d’Ivoire: hundreds of protesters arrested in banned opposition protests
Published at
31.10.2025
Country
Côte d'Ivoire
Tags:
- excessive force
- killing of protestors
- prevention of protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- time,place restrictions
Migrants & HRDs remain at risk, service delivery a key protest theme
Published at
31.10.2025
Country
South Africa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- harassment
- HRD killing
- HRD threatened
- positive court ruling
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- refugees and migrants
- violent protest
Journalists and media outlets face restrictions to their work
Published at
31.10.2025
Country
Zambia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- journalist detained
- positive court ruling
Attacks on press freedom and peaceful assembly in Liberia: Journalists face violence, abduction, and censorship
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Liberia
Tags:
- youth
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- non state actors
Suspension of media outlets, journalists detained and prosecuted
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Benin
Tags:
- transnational repression
- negative court ruling
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- enabling law
- censorship
- journalist detained
Authorities Tighten Rights Clampdown in Western Sahara, Youths hold mass Protests
Published at
28.10.2025
Country
Morocco
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
Lebanon’s Civic Space faces Triple Pressures — State, Israel, and Hezbolla
Published at
28.10.2025
Country
Lebanon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- harassment
- HRD threatened
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- killing of journalist
- non state actors
- protest
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- restrictive law