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Security forces employ excessive force against protesters in Kashmir
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- 21.04.2017
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- India
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- Latest Developments
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- travel ban
- HRD detained
- positive court ruling
- excessive force
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- HRD killing
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- torture/ill-treatment
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The purge continues: protests turn violent, websites blocked and 4,000 civil servants dismissed
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- 02.05.2017
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- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- censorship
- protest disruption
- CSO closure
- labour rights
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- violent protest
- time,place restrictions
- protestor(s) detained
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Police violently disperse student protesters
- Published at
- 10.05.2017
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- Eswatini
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- Latest Developments
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- excessive force
- protest
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Police use excessive force to disperse teachers' protest
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- 11.05.2017
- Country
- Argentina
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- protest
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- censorship
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Mapuche protest in Santiago ends in repression
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- 25.01.2017
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- Chile
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- protest disruption
- extractive industries
- excessive force
- indigenous groups
- protest
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Serious threats to women human rights defenders in Nicaragua
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- 22.05.2017
- Country
- Nicaragua
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- Latest Developments
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- protest disruption
- women
- attack on HRD
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- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- censorship
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At least five dead, dozens wounded and hundreds arrested in new wave of protests
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- 24.04.2017
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- Venezuela
- Category
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- protest disruption
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- protest
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- non state actors
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Police injure and detain protesters during peaceful youth march
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- 26.04.2017
- Country
- Mauritania
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
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Police abuse during protest captured on video
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- 01.05.2017
- Country
- Niger
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- killing of protestors
- excessive force
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No sign of civic freedoms improving, despite activists' release
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- 25.04.2017
- Country
- Sudan
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- minority groups
- release of HRDs
- censorship
- journalist detained
- excessive force
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Offensive and discriminatory language used against minority groups in the Netherlands
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- 05.05.2017
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- Netherlands
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- LGBTI
- religious groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
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Russian government continues to prevent protests and suppress dissent
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- 16.05.2017
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- office raid
- CSO closure
- protestor(s) detained
- minority groups
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
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Chilean environmental rights defender receives death threat
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- 18.05.2017
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- Chile
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- Latest Developments
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- protest
- attack on HRD
- excessive force
- environmental rights
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At least five killed as student protests turn violent
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- 13.04.2017
- Country
- Guinea
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- Latest Developments
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- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- harassment
- protest disruption
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- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- labour rights
- violent protest
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Crackdown on media workers continue
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- 04.04.2018
- Country
- Somalia
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- attack on journalist
- women
- journalist detained
- excessive force
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Kyrgyz president slams HRDs' efforts
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- 03.07.2017
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- Kyrgyzstan
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- environmental rights
- protest disruption
- harassment
- travel ban
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- surveillance
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
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Shrinking space for civil society in pre-election Kyrgyzstan
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- 01.05.2017
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- time,place restrictions
- journalist detained
- surveillance
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No improvement on civic space: Myanmar shuns international scrutiny
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- 05.05.2017
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- Myanmar
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- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
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- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
- private sector
- non state actors
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Nicaraguan activists intimidated and threatened for civic and human rights efforts
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- 27.03.2017
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
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- intimidation
- harassment
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- women
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
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Security forces fire on protesters in Baghdad and journalist killed in Mosul
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- 30.03.2017
- Country
- Iraq
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- killing of journalist
- time,place restrictions
- access to info. law