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New laws restricting freedom of peaceful assembly introduced as anti-government protests continue
Published at
24.02.2025
Country
Georgia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Violations to peaceful assembly documented ahead of 2025 elections
Published at
20.02.2025
Country
Malawi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- negative court ruling
- protest
- violent protest
- censorship
- journalist detained

Protesters demand justice for victims of deadly 2023 train crash
Published at
19.02.2025
Country
Greece
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- intimidation
- labour rights
- protest
- protestor(s) detained

Maldives: Protesters charged while authorities fail to reinstate the registration of a civil society group
Published at
13.02.2025
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- labour rights
- restrictive law
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained

Papua New Guinea: Cybercrime law used to criminalise expression as government proceeds with restrictive media policy
Published at
10.02.2025
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Bhutan: Restrictive funding requirements for civil society, defamation laws and detention of political prisoners
Published at
23.01.2025
Country
Bhutan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law

Malaysia: Government stifles expression, increases online controls and facilitates transnational repression
Published at
15.01.2025
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- place restrictions
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

NGOs take legal action against the Sovereignty Protection Act
Published at
27.12.2024
Country
Hungary
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- negative court ruling
- protest
- public vilification
- censorship

Mongolia: Civic freedoms at risk as prominent journalist jailed in closed-door hearings and protests against Putin‘s visit disrupted
Published at
03.12.2024
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

El Salvador added to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist
Published at
02.12.2024
Country
El Salvador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- public vilification
- HRD acquitted
- access to info. law
- environmental rights

La criminalización de las personas defensoras del medioambiente y la aprobación del proyecto de ley anti-ONG amenazan la libertad de asociación
Published at
28.11.2024
Country
Paraguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- intimidation
- protest
- restrictive law
- censorship