Repression of Palestine solidarity continues: raids, detentions and police brutality Published at 31.10.2024 Country Germany Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction protest disruption office raid youth CSO closure intimidation attack on journalist excessive force protest political interference censorship journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
Civil society warns of chilling effect due to protest restrictions Published at 31.10.2024 Country Ireland Category Latest Developments Tags: access to info. law protestor(s) detained protest intimidation Read more
Record sentences for climate activists, raids on journalists under Terrorism Act Published at 29.10.2024 Country United Kingdom Category Latest Developments Tags: office raid intimidation HRD detained journalist detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
Development agency ends agreements with CSO partners Published at 16.10.2024 Country Sweden Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction protest disruption intimidation excessive force protest protestor(s) detained environmental rights Read more
Parliament votes not to decriminalise assisted abortion; Activists acquitted for 2020 protests over abortion ban Published at 16.11.2024 Country Poland Category Latest Developments Tags: women refugees and migrants intimidation positive CS development labour rights protest HRD acquitted surveillance Read more
Nepal: Activists and online critics arrested to stifle dissent as journalists remain at risk Published at 18.11.2024 Country Nepal Category Latest Developments Tags: youth protest disruption women intimidation positive CS development HRD detained excessive force restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
Crackdown on Palestine solidarity encampments Published at 12.07.2024 Country United States of America Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption office raid attack on HRD intimidation HRD detained excessive force public vilification censorship surveillance positive court ruling attack on journalist negative court ruling labour rights protest violent protest restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained environmental rights Read more
"Agents of influence" bill reintroduced; protests repressed, press freedom under attack Published at 01.11.2024 Country Turkey Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption office raid CSO closure intimidation travel ban excessive force prevention of protest torture/ill-treatment censorship LGBTI women refugees and migrants minority groups attack on journalist labour rights protest violent protest political interference journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
Slovenia improves ranking on World Press Freedom Index; journalists still report pressures Published at 31.10.2024 Country Slovenia Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI positive CS development negative court ruling public vilification political interference access to info. law Read more
Turkmenistan: Economic hardship, repression, and targeting of critics at home and abroad Published at 19.11.2024 Country Turkmenistan Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation release of HRDs transnational repression travel ban internet restriction censorship Read more
India: Death of human rights defender and continued repression of dissent highlights risks facing activists Published at 20.11.2024 Country India Category Latest Developments Tags: youth women minority groups intimidation harassment HRD detained labour rights bureaucratic restriction journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
Révision constitutionnelle à l'étude ; des journalistes assassinés Published at 31.10.2024 Country Democratic Republic of the Congo Category Latest Developments Tags: time,place restrictions killing of journalist journalist detained place restrictions Read more
Russia declares “international LGBTQI+ movement” as extremist Published at 20.12.2023 Country Russia Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI negative court ruling prevention of protest bureaucratic restriction censorship journalist detained Read more
Further tightening of restrictions on “undesirable” organisations Published at 30.07.2024 Country Russia Category Latest Developments Tags: restrictive law censorship HRD prosecuted protest Read more
More foreign media outlets banned; enforced disappearances or detention of critical voices Published at 14.11.2024 Country Mali Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI protest disruption attack on HRD transnational repression HRD detained negative court ruling criminal defamation censorship HRD prosecuted Read more
China: Human rights defenders criminalised as well as face harassment, surveillance and transnational repression Published at 27.11.2024 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption women minority groups transnational repression harassment HRD detained labour rights protest censorship journalist detained surveillance HRD prosecuted Read more
Forced conscription of HRDs, journalists and magistrates; a dozen media outlets or programmes suspended Published at 11.11.2024 Country Burkina Faso Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption release of HRDs HRD detained excessive force protest enforced disappearance prevention of protest time,place restrictions censorship Read more
Hong Kong: Jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists, Stand News editors and critics highlights climate of repression Published at 28.11.2024 Country Hong Kong Category Latest Developments Tags: women HRD detained negative court ruling criminal defamation restrictive law bureaucratic restriction HRD prosecuted Read more
