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Internet activists subjected to retrial
- Published at
- 31.08.2023
- Country
- Oman
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
In Somalia and Somaliland, no reprieve is in sight for journalists
- Published at
- 07.07.2023
- Country
- Somalia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- religious groups
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD threatened
- non state actors
Arrests, abductions and violent attacks against critics and opposition surround election period
- Published at
- 27.09.2023
- Country
- Zimbabwe
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
Attacks and targeting of pro-democracy activists continue
- Published at
- 30.06.2023
- Country
- Eswatini
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
Vietnam: Criminalisation and ill-treatment of activists persists as government marks one year on the Human Rights Council
- Published at
- 05.10.2023
- Country
- Vietnam
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- minority groups
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Indonesia: Crackdown on activists, expression and protests including in Papua as government seeks Human Rights Council membership
- Published at
- 06.10.2023
- Country
- Indonesia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- place restrictions
- indigenous groups
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- private sector
- land rights
Sri Lanka: Journalists and activists targeted, protests stifled and new restrictive laws proposed
- Published at
- 13.10.2023
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- surveillance
Bangladesh: Government continues targeting activists and criminalising opposition members ahead of UN human rights review
- Published at
- 23.10.2023
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Cambodia: Criminalisation of activists and the opposition continues following sham elections and transfer of political power
- Published at
- 23.10.2023
- Country
- Cambodia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
- land rights
Afghanistan: Continued raids on and detention of activists, journalists, and crackdown on peaceful protests
- Published at
- 25.10.2023
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- self censorship
- protest disruption
- women
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
UN experts, CSOs raise alarm about harsh prison conditions after blogger’s death
- Published at
- 03.06.2023
- Country
- Belarus
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
China: Government elected to UN Human Rights Council as it prosecutes and jails human rights defenders and journalists
- Published at
- 30.10.2023
- Country
- China
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
One month after the start of the Azerbaijani offensive, 20 arrested so far for speaking out against Nagorno-Karabakh war
- Published at
- 30.10.2023
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- labour rights
- protest
- internet restriction
- extractive industries
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Bolivia: Attacks on media outlets, journalists and social leader threaten freedom of association and expression
- Published at
- 14.09.2023
- Country
- Bolivia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- protest
Malaysia: Bookstores raided, news portal blocked, activists criminalised and sedition law used to stifle dissent
- Published at
- 28.11.2023
- Country
- Malaysia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- land rights
Bangladesh: Crackdown on the political opposition and activists continues ahead of elections
- Published at
- 14.12.2023
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- labour rights
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
Crackdown on the opposition, fight against “false” information and publication of “foreign agent” list
- Published at
- 20.12.2023
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- refusal of registration
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Myanmar: Political prisoners face reprisals while junta continues to target journalists, activists and trade unionists
- Published at
- 16.01.2024
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- office raid
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Pakistan: Crackdown on the opposition, Baloch protesters and other civic freedoms ahead of elections
- Published at
- 22.01.2024
- Country
- Pakistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- women
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- hrd
Journalists sentenced for reporting on Mahsa Amini's death
- Published at
- 20.12.2023
- Country
- Iran
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted