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Pakistan: Authorities continue to silence dissent with crackdown on Baloch and other activists, protesters and journalists
Published at
03.10.2024
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- women
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Detienen y procesan arbitrariamente a PDDH; la provincia de Annobon se queda sin internet
Published at
10.10.2024
Country
Equatorial Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Journalist disappeared after raid as repression intensifies in Nicaragua
Published at
02.08.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- CSO closure
- religious groups
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
Arbitrary arrests and imprisonment; no respite for HRDs, journalists
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Yemen
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- enforced disappearance
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Concerns over mistreatment of detained HRDs, prolonged hunger strikes
Published at
02.09.2024
Country
Saudi Arabia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- negative court ruling
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted

Journalists and activists killed in Mexico amidst widespread impunity
Published at
14.03.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- censorship
- non state actors
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- political interference
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Civic freedoms under threat amid rising political instability and criminal gang violence
Published at
14.10.2024
Country
Haiti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- CSO closure
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Media freedom under threat; enforced disappearance of two HRDs
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

Severe repression in overseas territories; surveillance and house arrests ahead of Paris Olympics
Published at
30.09.2024
Country
France
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

Civic freedoms under threat amid disputed presidential elections
Published at
09.11.2024
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained

Killing of activist amidst wave of violence in Chiapas
Published at
18.11.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Forced conscription of HRDs, journalists and magistrates; a dozen media outlets or programmes suspended
Published at
11.11.2024
Country
Burkina Faso
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- censorship

Les libertés civiques menacées sur fond d'instabilité politique croissante et d'escalade de la violence des gangs
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Haiti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- CSO closure
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Philippines: Activists remain at risk of red-tagging, disappearances and fabricated terrorism charges
Published at
06.01.2025
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- travel ban
- labour rights
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Des DDH, des journalistes et des magistrats enrôlés de force ; une douzaine de médias et de programmes suspendus
Published at
15.11.2024
Country
Burkina Faso
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- censorship

Internet shut down; arrest of anti-slavery activist
Published at
31.10.2023
Country
Mauritania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- transnational repression
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- violent protest

Human rights organisation welcomes the fall of the Al-Assad Government
Published at
06.02.2025
Country
Syria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment

Pakistan: Government criminalises activists, increases online controls and cracks down on protests by the opposition and ethnic groups
Published at
26.02.2025
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- women
- minority groups
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- place restrictions

India: Indigenous movement banned, protests stifled while activists and journalists targeted
Published at
01.03.2025
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- extractive industries
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

Deadly crackdown follows 2024 mass protests, surge in femicides sparks more protests
Published at
06.03.2025
Country
Kenya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- women
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- self censorship
- youth
- transnational repression

Escalating violent conflict in eastern DRC: journalists and HRDs targeted; censorship and internet cuts
Published at
07.03.2025
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- censorship
- non state actors

Escalade du conflit dans l'est de la RDC : censure, coupures d'Internet et attaques contre les journalistes et les DDH
Published at
10.03.2025
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- censorship
- non state actors