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Media and other independent actors face new restrictions
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained

Law criminalising "malicious attacks" on state authority, pro-Palestinian CSOs investigated
Published at
25.03.2024
Country
Belgium
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- women
- religious groups
- intimidation
- labour rights
- excessive force
- protest
- violent protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights

Controversy as National Conservatism conference banned
Published at
11.06.2024
Country
Belgium
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- office raid
- religious groups
- minority groups
- labour rights
- excessive force
- protest
- violent protest
- political interference
- protestor(s) detained

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

New reports highlight challenges for press freedom
Published at
07.06.2024
Country
Lithuania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- religious groups
- labour rights
- minority groups

Public broadcaster’s funding model threatened; Pride march sees some opposition from Christian groups
Published at
14.08.2024
Country
Lithuania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protestor(s) detained
- religious groups
- protest

135 political prisoners expelled from Nicaragua; closure of 1,500 CSOs within one month
Published at
23.10.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship

CAR: Foreign NGO worker arrested on spying charges; dozens of NGOs will close due to lack of funding; scathing reports by journalists and CSOs denied by authorities
Published at
15.10.2024
Country
Central African Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- public vilification
- CSO closure
- bureaucratic restriction

Controversy as new government takes over public broadcaster
Published at
09.04.2024
Country
Poland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- violent protest
- political interference
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- people with disabilities

Controversial media law passed
Published at
20.07.2024
Country
Kosovo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- women
- journalist detained
- religious groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- excessive force
- protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights

Expulsan a 135 personas presas políticas y cierran 1500 OSC en un mes
Published at
15.11.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship

Tajikistan's Crackdown on Dissent: Erosion of Rights and Civic Space
Published at
17.02.2025
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- religious groups
- transnational repression
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Protests erupt in response to surprise coalition with controversial party, court rules freedom of information protects LGBTQI+ public representation
Published at
20.02.2025
Country
Lithuania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- religious groups
- protest
- surveillance

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

Civil society scrambles to replace USAID funding; PiS aims to discredit opponents as elections approach
Published at
20.03.2025
Country
Poland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- religious groups
- protest
- political interference
- censorship