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Authorities fail to investigate break-ins targeting human rights organisations
Published at
08.03.2018
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- attack on HRD
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- positive court ruling
- non state actors

Journalists, human rights defenders and artists persecuted and harassed in Cuba
Published at
16.02.2018
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- harassment
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- protestor(s) detained

Killing of student prompts united civil society response to closing space
Published at
20.03.2018
Country
Tanzania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- public vilification

State continues to restrict and threaten civic space
Published at
14.03.2018
Country
Russia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- women
- religious groups
- political interference
- protestor(s) detained
- protest

Decree on Associations imposes severe restrictions on civil society
Published at
14.03.2018
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- funding restriction
- CSO closure
- restrictive law

Haitian photojournalist Vladjimir Legagneur - missing since 14th March
Published at
30.03.2018
Country
Haiti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance

Pashtun protests continue despite pressure from authorities
Published at
01.05.2018
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- censorship
- self censorship
- funding restriction
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- protestor(s) detained

Attacks on civic space continue with threats to dissolve opposition and jailing of judges
Published at
31.05.2018
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest

Septimius Award organisers abducted in Tripoli and held in detention by GNA
Published at
18.06.2018
Country
Libya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- torture/ill-treatment

UN Human Rights Committee slams Laos record on civil and political rights
Published at
23.08.2018
Country
Laos
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- land rights

Ahead of elections, abuse of laws crippling Maldives’ nascent democracy says rights group
Published at
27.08.2018
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- protest
- restrictive law

UN urges Bahrain to end restrictions on civic space
Published at
02.08.2018
Country
Bahrain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- CSO closure
- harassment
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Activists threatened and attacked while families of the disappeared protest hearings
Published at
07.08.2018
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- religious groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD threatened

Repression of protests killed 15 people in 2018
Published at
07.08.2018
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- youth
- harassment
- enforced disappearance
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- killing of protestors
- excessive force
- labour rights
- censorship

Journalists and humanitarian worker killed as conflict continues
Published at
10.07.2018
Country
Yemen
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- office raid
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- protest

Kenyan activist disappears ahead of protests while a new cyber crimes law is challenged in court
Published at
20.07.2018
Country
Kenya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- harassment
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- attack on HRD

275 people killed since the protests started
Published at
19.07.2018
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- attack on HRD
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- killing of protestors
- youth
- violent protest
- non state actors

Activists call for reform after peace deal with Ethiopia
Published at
13.08.2018
Country
Eritrea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- religious groups
- bureaucratic restriction

Libya: journalist abducted, tortured and murdered
Published at
21.08.2018
Country
Libya
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- journalist detained

Student wing of ruling party attacking activists, academics and journalists with impunity
Published at
02.08.2018
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- attack on journalist
- public vilification
- enforced disappearance
- non state actors