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Commission to investigate attacks on CSOs under PiS; Volunteer prosecuted for assisting asylum seeker at border
Published at
07.07.2025
Country
Poland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Closure of news agency; expulsion of journalist
Published at
03.07.2025
Country
Seychelles
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- journalist detained
- environmental rights

El acoso y las agresiones contra las personas defensoras del medioambiente y líderes indígenas evidencian el fracaso del marco legal de protección
Published at
24.06.2025
Country
Chile
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- private sector
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- journalist detained
- environmental rights

South Korea: Activists criminalised, satire censored amidst political transition
Published at
24.06.2025
Country
South Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Controversial law on magisterial inquiry adopted; Two additional convictions for role in journalist’s murder
Published at
12.06.2025
Country
Malta
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- funding restriction
- women
- criminal defamation
- protest
- restrictive law

Attacks and harassment against environmental and Indigenous defenders highlight protection failure
Published at
08.06.2025
Country
Chile
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- private sector
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- journalist detained
- environmental rights

Timor-Leste: Concerns around cyber crime bill, harassment of journalists and martial arts ban
Published at
04.06.2025
Country
Timor-Leste
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- women
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction

Fiji: Restrictions on protest persist despite calls for reforms by the UN Human Rights Council
Published at
02.06.2025
Country
Fiji
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- labour rights
- environmental rights
- bureaucratic restriction

Large and sustained protests against government’s pro-Russian stance and Foreign Agent Law
Published at
28.05.2025
Country
Slovakia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- access to info. law

Oleada de agresiones contra activistas de los derechos de las personas migrantes; al menos dos personas manifestantes heridas
Published at
27.05.2025
Country
Dominican Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- restrictive law
- environmental rights

Australia: Authorities continue to criminalise protests, police with impunity and increase restrictive legislation and policies
Published at
26.05.2025
Country
Australia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- surveillance