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Former dictator Desi Bouterse dies; farmers compensated after months of protest
Published at
09.01.2025
Country
Suriname
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development

South Korea: Short-lived martial law decree signal of civic space regression under President Yoon
Published at
20.12.2024
Country
South Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- excessive force
- protest
- protestor(s) detained

Protesters clash with police on the fifth anniversary of the student-led mass protests in Santiago
Published at
17.12.2024
Country
Chile
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- excessive force
- protestor(s) detained

Parliament votes not to decriminalise assisted abortion; Activists acquitted for 2020 protests over abortion ban
Published at
16.11.2024
Country
Poland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest
- HRD acquitted
- surveillance

Fiji: Police continue to block march on Palestine while university unions hold strike despite threats of pay dock
Published at
12.11.2024
Country
Fiji
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- labour rights
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction

Timor-Leste: Ban on solidarity protests on West Papua and arrest of activists
Published at
08.11.2024
Country
Timor-Leste
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- prevention of protest
- HRD threatened
- bureaucratic restriction

Growing threats to civic freedoms in the USA
Published at
04.11.2024
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- private sector

Repression of Palestine solidarity continues: raids, detentions and police brutality
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Germany
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- office raid
- youth
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Australia: Police use excessive force, criminalise protesters and sought to block protests through the courts
Published at
29.10.2024
Country
Australia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- women
- refugees and migrants
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

Police assault schoolchildren with batons at pro-Palestine protest
Published at
15.10.2024
Country
Italy
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- office raid
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

News host charged under Cyber Crime Act; RSF warns of declining of press freedom
Published at
09.10.2024
Country
Guyana
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- protest
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- access to info. law