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Cuba: prosecutions against protesters continue; more restrictions are proposed in Penal Code reform
Published at
20.04.2022
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- harassment
- funding restriction
- protest
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
Cuba: continúan los juicios de manifestantes; la reforma del código penal proponen más restricciones
Published at
03.05.2022
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- women
- youth
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
Las autoridades nicaragüenses ilegalizan a la sociedad civil en la práctica
Published at
11.07.2022
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- women
- CSO closure
- religious groups
- harassment
- journalist detained
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- surveillance
- sexual assault
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD prosecuted
- restrictive law
- environmental rights
Kazakhstan: Civic space limited by continued fallout from January 2022 events
Published at
28.04.2022
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
El Salvador: human rights defenders arbitrarily detained during state of emergency
Published at
04.05.2022
Country
El Salvador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- extractive industries
- self censorship
- LGBTI
- women
- harassment
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD detained
- surveillance
- protest
- public vilification
- environmental rights
Arrests of activists, journalists continue in Myanmar as military tribunals impose harsh sentences
Published at
10.05.2022
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Six members and supporters of Wakit Tama arrested, charged following protest
Published at
06.06.2022
Country
Chad
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- killing of journalist
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- HRD acquitted
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- protest disruption
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
Journalists and others killed and arbitrarily detained for exercising their right to freedom of expr
Published at
10.05.2022
Country
Yemen
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- journalist detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- protest
President Ndayishimiye pledges to release political prisoners
Published at
25.02.2022
Country
Burundi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- HRD killing
- torture/ill-treatment
Detienen de forma arbitraria a defensores de los derechos humanos durante el estado de excepción
Published at
16.05.2022
Country
El Salvador
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- torture/ill-treatment
- surveillance
- environmental rights
- self censorship
- LGBTI
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
Le président Ndayishimiye s'engage à libérer les prisonniers politiques
Published at
25.02.2022
Country
Burundi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- journalist detained
- torture/ill-treatment
Perú se sume en una nueva crisis tras la destitución de su presidente
Published at
20.02.2023
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- journalist detained
- killing of protestors
- protest
- youth
- protest disruption
- torture/ill-treatment
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- sexual assault
- harassment
- women
- indigenous groups
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
The Taliban continues to target activists, journalists and stifle protests by women with impunity
Published at
16.06.2022
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- women
- attack on journalist
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Peru launched into crisis following president’s removal
Published at
17.02.2023
Country
Peru
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on journalist
- protest
- sexual assault
- youth
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- violent protest
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- public vilification
- journalist detained
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
Civic space takes further hit from Taliban's deplorable NGO ban for women as activists and journalists continued to be targeted
Published at
22.02.2023
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Ongoing concerns about lack of impartial investigations into "Bloody January’’ events
Published at
20.06.2022
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Amid UN scrutiny, documentary on Modi censored, activists remain in detention and repression in Kashmir continues
Published at
24.02.2023
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- office raid
- harassment
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
North Korea cracks down on anti-socialist behaviour, detains critics of its COVID-19 policies
Published at
12.07.2022
Country
North Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- surveillance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
Cuba: Repercussions of July 2021 mass protests still felt
Published at
08.08.2022
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- youth
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- people with disabilities
CSOs report new wave of oppression against human rights defenders and civil society
Published at
08.08.2022
Country
Iran
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted