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Samoan authorities use defamation laws against critics as press freedom rankings drop
Published at
04.08.2022
Country
Samoa
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- criminal defamation

Journalists in Timor-Leste face charges for exposing corruption and abuse, tainting media freedom
Published at
15.08.2022
Country
Timor-Leste
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- criminal defamation
- censorship

Rising cost of living sparks protests in Moldova
Published at
15.04.2022
Country
Moldova
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- protest
- criminal defamation

Reports and monitoring missions document extreme repression and violence against activists
Published at
18.08.2022
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest disruption
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- censorship
- harassment
- positive CS development
- HRD killing

Activists criminalised for royal defamation and targeted by spyware in Thailand
Published at
22.08.2022
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- protest
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted

Civic freedoms restricted ahead of 24th August general elections
Published at
23.08.2022
Country
Angola
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- HRD threatened
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- youth
- protest
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- violent protest
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- HRD acquitted
- killing of protestors
- time,place restrictions
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Amid protests, censorship and persecution of Uyghurs and activists in China, Xi Jinping seeks third term
Published at
01.09.2022
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- surveillance
- women
- minority groups
- negative court ruling
- protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Authorities continue targeting the Bedoon Community
Published at
23.09.2022
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- protestor(s) detained
- criminal defamation
- HRD acquitted
- protest

Indonesian authorities criminalise activists, violently suppress protests around Papua
Published at
19.05.2022
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- intimidation
- youth
- extractive industries
- protest disruption
- harassment
- women
- killing of protestors
- restrictive law
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights

As Belarus marks 2nd anniversary of the 2020 protests, pressure against CSOs and protesters continues
Published at
06.10.2022
Country
Belarus
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- CSO closure
- criminal defamation

International Cooperation bill threatens to further reduce civic space in Venezuela
Published at
28.06.2022
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- censorship
- intimidation
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted

El Proyecto de Ley de Cooperación Internacional amenaza con reducir aún más el espacio cívico
Published at
30.06.2022
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- restrictive law
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- political interference
- funding restriction
- women

Civil society urges the UN to reject Vietnam’s bid for the Human Rights Council as it continues to arrest and jail activists
Published at
21.09.2022
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- women
- minority groups
- protest disruption
- travel ban
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights

Panama: judicial harassment continues to affect freedom of expression
Published at
01.12.2022
Country
Panama
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- enabling law

Peru: attacks on journalists as political polarisation remains prominent
Published at
27.10.2022
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- non state actors
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- protest
- harassment
- women
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD killing
- extractive industries
- indigenous groups
- journalist detained
- criminal defamation
- attack on journalist
- environmental rights
- restrictive law
- land rights
- protest disruption
- office raid

Despite UN scrutiny, activists continue to be criminalised by the new Philippines administration
Published at
15.11.2022
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation

Protesters face judicial harassment while restrictions to freedom of expression persist in Malaysia
Published at
17.11.2022
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- harassment
- labour rights
- protest
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Harassment and criminalisation of activists and journalists in Hong Kong continues unabated
Published at
13.12.2022
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Protesters continue to face prosecution and excessive force while activists criminalised for royal defamation in Thailand
Published at
15.12.2022
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- time,place restrictions
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- youth
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted

Paraguay: September marked by killings of a journalist and a campesino leader
Published at
20.12.2022
Country
Paraguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- non state actors
- indigenous groups
- killing of journalist
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- private sector
- land rights
- criminal defamation
- HRD killing
- prevention of protest
- negative court ruling
- positive court ruling