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Sri Lanka: Authorities crackdown on protest in Mannar and continue to harass activists and journalists
Published at
16.10.2025
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- excessive force
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- land rights
Malta: Large mobilisation against planning bills
Published at
16.10.2025
Country
Malta
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- land rights
- intimidation
Indonesia: Brutal crackdown on protests, arrests of activists and suppression of dissent in Papua as President marks one year in power
Published at
24.10.2025
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- protest
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
- youth
Vietnam: Regime targets human rights defenders working on minority, indigenous, land and environmental rights despite UN review
Published at
29.10.2025
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- religious groups
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
Indigenous defenders killed amid ongoing land disputes; Civic freedoms crippled by Nicaragua’s new constitutional amendments
Published at
08.06.2025
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- indigenous groups
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- journalist detained
- land rights
Malaysia: Protests restricted, activists harassed and critics silenced as courts push back
Published at
18.11.2025
Country
Malaysia
Tags:
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- women
Cambodia: Authorities criminalise commentary and reporting on border conflict and prosecute and jail critics
Published at
01.12.2025
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- land rights
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
Allegations against activist spark fears of stigmatisation of civil society ahead of elections; Police intervention disrupts large farmers’ protest
Published at
27.01.2026
Country
Costa Rica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- labour rights
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- women
Philippines: Protesters increasingly criminalised while activists continue to face baseless charges, harassment and red-tagging
Published at
11.03.2026
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- censorship
- extractive industries
- HRD acquitted
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- intimidation
- labour rights
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- youth
Vietnam: Persecution of activists and critics continued in the lead up to the sham National Assembly elections
Published at
30.03.2026
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- journalist detained
- land rights
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- religious groups
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- transnational repression
- women
Former telecom workers continue to protest over severance dispute; Community mobilises to defend public access to coastline
Published at
07.04.2026
Country
Belize
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- land rights
- protest
Indonesia: Repression escalates with attack on human rights defender, criminalisation and threats against activists and Papua crackdown
Published at
08.04.2026
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- criminal defamation
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- HRD detained
- intimidation
- land rights
- non state actors
- positive court ruling
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- release of HRDs
- restrictive law
- women
- youth
Malaysia: Activists face police harassment, protesters arrested and journalists targeted for their reporting
Published at
15.04.2026
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- enforced disappearance
- harassment
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- land rights
- negative court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- youth
Cambodia: Scores convicted for criticism against a regional agreement while journalists, activists and opposition continue to be targeted
Published at
07.05.2026
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- journalist detained
- land rights
- negative court ruling
- protest disruption
- restrictive law
- women
- youth
Thailand: Activists convicted for protest speeches, journalists criminalised and opposition politicians face lifetime ban
Published at
09.06.2026
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- criminal defamation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- journalist detained
- land rights
- minority groups
- negative court ruling
- positive court ruling
- refugees and migrants
- restrictive law
- transnational repression
- women
China: Repression continues with new ‘ethnic unity’ law, targeting of activists and silencing of Tiananmen anniversary commemorations
Published at
30.06.2026
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
- minority groups
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- torture/ill-treatment
- transnational repression
- women
Tensions around quarry activities near Indigenous land
Published at
17.08.2026
Country
Dominica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- environmental rights
- extractive industries
- indigenous groups
- labour rights
- land rights
- private sector
Online intimidation emerges as growing threat to journalists in Uruguay; Bill seeks transparent rules for allocation of official advertising
Published at
31.08.2026
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- access to info. law
- enabling law
- environmental rights
- intimidation
- land rights
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- protest
Timor-Leste: Government halts criminalising defamation after backlash from civil society but concerns flagged on proposed cybersecurity legislation
Published at
02.09.2026
Country
Timor-Leste
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- land rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- torture/ill-treatment
Malaysia: Activists and critics face baseless investigations, travel bans and freezing of accounts as restrictive laws are passed
Published at
18.09.2026
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- environmental rights
- funding restriction
- harassment
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
- non state actors
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- travel ban