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Prominent HRDs detained and disappeared as authorities escalate repression; New sweeping laws raise concerns about civic freedoms
Published at
14.06.2025
Country
Venezuela
Tags:
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- excessive force
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- office raid
- protest
- protest disruption
- public vilification
- restrictive law
Afghanistan: Taliban blocks the internet and social media, cracks down on the media and arrests activists
Published at
02.12.2025
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- harassment
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- killing of journalist
- labour rights
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
Enforced Prosperity Narratives, Corruption-driven Internet Censorship, and Repression of Dissent at Home and Abroad
Published at
04.12.2025
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
Les condamnations pour dissidence se multiplient
Published at
20.09.2025
Country
Algeria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- negative court ruling
- place restrictions
- political interference
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- travel ban
India: Civic freedoms remain at risk with crackdown on protests, internet restrictions and denial of bail to activists
Published at
13.01.2026
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- funding restriction
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- internet restriction
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- restrictive law
- women
- youth
North Korea: New UN report highlights a decade of repression as new resolution passed at the UN General Assembly
Published at
14.01.2026
Country
North Korea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- surveillance
Nationwide protests met with deadly crackdown, mass killings
Published at
21.01.2026
Country
Iran
Tags:
- censorship
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- protest
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
Papua New Guinea: Concerns around use of cybercrime law to criminalise expression, new social media policy and Starlink internet disruption
Published at
22.01.2026
Country
Papua New Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
UN experts and human rights organisations express concern over Venezuela after unlawful US military intervention and emergency declaration
Published at
23.01.2026
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- office raid
- political interference
- protest
- public vilification
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
Singapore: Activist blocked from entering country while critics and news outlets targeted
Published at
26.01.2026
Country
Singapore
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- harassment
- internet restriction
- positive court ruling
- restrictive law
- women
One year of Trump 2.0: Civic freedoms under pressure
Published at
26.01.2026
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- access to info. law
- attack on journalist
- censorship
- CSO closure
- enabling law
- environmental rights
- excessive force
- funding restriction
- indigenous groups
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- political interference
- positive CS development
- protest
- protestor(s) detained
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- torture/ill-treatment
- travel ban
- youth
Myanmar: Election law and other forms of repression used to target dissent against sham elections, five years on from coup
Published at
06.02.2026
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- HRD detained
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- minority groups
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- women
Taiwan: Protesters face investigation, social media platform banned and union suppressed
Published at
10.02.2026
Country
Taiwan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- internet restriction
- labour rights
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
ONU y organizaciones de DD.HH. expresan su preocupación tras la intervención militar ilegal de EE.UU. y la declaración del estado de emergencia
Published at
18.02.2026
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- enforced disappearance
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- office raid
- political interference
- protest
- public vilification
- release of HRDs
- travel ban