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Venezuela stifles dissent with political interference in opposition parties and detentions
- Published at
- 12.08.2020
- Country
- Venezuela
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- intimidation
- negative court ruling
- political interference
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
Nicaragua: ley sobre agentes extranjeros aumentará el control del gobierno sobre la sociedad civil
- Published at
- 06.10.2020
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- harassment
- restrictive law
- attack on journalist
- funding restriction
- women
- criminal defamation
- sexual assault
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- intimidation
- HRD threatened
- torture/ill-treatment
Mass protests follow disputed election results
- Published at
- 20.08.2020
- Country
- Belarus
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- violent protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
Las autoridades cubanas impiden las marchas prodemocracia
- Published at
- 28.12.2021
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Activists and journalists facing harassment, being forcibly disappeared or killed in Pakistan
- Published at
- 21.08.2020
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained
Independent Fact-Finding Mission a welcome step, but violations against HRDs, journalists continue
- Published at
- 21.08.2020
- Country
- Libya
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- office raid
- surveillance
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD threatened
Activist groups in Japan call for end to racism, police abuse and passage of equality law
- Published at
- 27.08.2020
- Country
- Japan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- LGBTI
- torture/ill-treatment
- minority groups
Upheaval in Peru as president removed
- Published at
- 19.11.2020
- Country
- Peru
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- environmental rights
- indigenous groups
- HRD acquitted
- labour rights
- HRD threatened
- land rights
- youth
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- extractive industries
- positive CS development
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of protestors
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- sexual assault
Despite re-election to Human Rights Council, civic space concerns persist in Nepal
- Published at
- 21.10.2020
- Country
- Nepal
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- torture/ill-treatment
- minority groups
- restrictive law
- killing of journalist
- attack on journalist
Continued rights violations reported throughout COVID-19 lockdown and run up to national elections
- Published at
- 31.08.2020
- Country
- Uganda
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- excessive force
- release of HRDs
- LGBTI
- criminal defamation
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Lao activist Muay in jail for nearly a year while still no justice for 2018 dam collapse
- Published at
- 02.09.2020
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- torture/ill-treatment
- environmental rights
- land rights
Laws on Foreign Agents and Cybercrimes restrict civic space further in Nicaragua
- Published at
- 16.12.2020
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- self censorship
- LGBTI
- funding restriction
- women
- youth
- intimidation
- censorship
Protests over economic conditions under COVID-19; journalists face threats for critical reporting
- Published at
- 07.05.2020
- Country
- Tunisia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- attack on journalist
- women
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- refugees and migrants
- excessive force
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Argentina’s former government accused of spying on journalists, civil society leaders and others
- Published at
- 14.09.2020
- Country
- Argentina
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- surveillance
Activists, academics and journalists in India face judicial harassment despite pandemic
- Published at
- 16.09.2020
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- women
- harassment
- attack on journalist
Journalists attacked while covering protests
- Published at
- 03.10.2020
- Country
- Nigeria
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- protest disruption
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
Protest against police killing suppressed in Cuba and Sunflower Uprising proceeds despite repression
- Published at
- 17.09.2020
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- intimidation
- women
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
Acusan al anterior gobierno de espiar a periodistas y líderes de la sociedad civil, entre otros
- Published at
- 17.09.2020
- Country
- Argentina
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- bureaucratic restriction
- youth
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- surveillance
UN condemns North Korea for denial of freedoms through ‘absolute monopoly on information’
- Published at
- 21.09.2020
- Country
- North Korea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- harassment
- censorship
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
Reprimen manifestación por asesinato a manos de la policía y continua la revolución de los girasoles
- Published at
- 23.09.2020
- Country
- Cuba
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- youth
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted