Restrictive legislation, criminal cases against the media & bans on protests on Ukraine Published at 18.05.2022 Country Kyrgyzstan Category Latest Developments Tags: office raid intimidation harassment positive CS development surveillance negative court ruling protest public vilification prevention of protest restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted Read more
TransIndex staff resign citing political pressure; Senate approves anti-LGBTQI+ law Published at 09.06.2022 Country Romania Category Latest Developments Tags: restrictive law intimidation harassment positive court ruling LGBTI women censorship Read more
Undocumented migrants call on government to ensure fair regularisation procedures Published at 16.11.2021 Country Belgium Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption refugees and migrants harassment protestor(s) detained surveillance excessive force environmental rights Read more
Nicaragua anuncia su decisión de retirarse de la OEA mientras continúan las detenciones arbitrarias Published at 13.12.2021 Country Nicaragua Category Latest Developments Tags: enforced disappearance youth women harassment travel ban HRD detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Government cements further power over media; effects of anti-LGBTQI law seen Published at 06.12.2021 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship positive court ruling LGBTI funding restriction harassment protest internet restriction political interference surveillance Read more
Peaceful Assembly under attack: Policing bill proposes up to 51 weeks’ jail time for protesting Published at 14.12.2021 Country United Kingdom Category Latest Developments Tags: restrictive law protestor(s) detained environmental rights refugees and migrants intimidation harassment excessive force protest public vilification internet restriction political interference Read more
Crackdown on union strike in Cambodia while repression of opposition and critics continues Published at 05.01.2022 Country Cambodia Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained journalist detained negative court ruling labour rights excessive force protest protest disruption women harassment restrictive law HRD prosecuted Read more
Freedom of expression suffers another blow as two journalists and one HRD are detained Published at 07.01.2022 Country Togo Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship prevention of protest journalist detained release of HRDs intimidation harassment HRD detained Read more
Journalist arrested; UN experts denounce abuses by private military contractors Published at 06.01.2022 Country Central African Republic Category Latest Developments Tags: non state actors intimidation harassment censorship journalist detained Read more
Mexican government investigated and monitored journalist and human rights defenders Published at 22.12.2021 Country Mexico Category Latest Developments Tags: women harassment killing of protestors refugees and migrants protest youth LGBTI excessive force surveillance protest disruption non state actors Read more
Brazil: environmental and land defenders killed, journalists attacked and pandemic data blackout Published at 18.01.2022 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: internet restriction restrictive law enabling law HRD threatened environmental rights land rights youth attack on HRD harassment HRD killing criminal defamation non state actors women indigenous groups minority groups positive CS development attack on journalist protest Read more
Independence of RTV Slovenija under threat; culture and environmental CSOs face funding cuts Published at 11.01.2022 Country Slovenia Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction political interference restrictive law bureaucratic restriction harassment environmental rights Read more
Nouveau coup à la liberté d'expression: détention de deux journalistes et un défenseur des droits Published at 13.01.2022 Country Togo Category Latest Developments Tags: prevention of protest journalist detained release of HRDs intimidation harassment censorship HRD detained Read more
systematic crackdown on dissent continues Published at 30.11.2021 Country Tanzania Category Latest Developments Tags: political interference release of HRDs harassment censorship journalist detained women HRD prosecuted Read more
Concerns over wave of abusive SLAPPS against online news outlet Index.hr Published at 20.11.2021 Country Croatia Category Latest Developments Tags: harassment negative court ruling protest public vilification extractive industries censorship environmental rights intimidation Read more
Teachers fired for civil disobedience; teenager faces backlash over critical speech about Orbán government Published at 17.02.2023 Country Hungary Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on journalist protest youth intimidation harassment labour rights censorship Read more
Honduras: Two human rights defenders, Pablo Isabel Hernández Rivera and Thalía Rodríguez, killed Published at 21.01.2022 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI women indigenous groups harassment HRD killing negative court ruling labour rights protest internet restriction killing of journalist bureaucratic restriction HRD threatened environmental rights Read more
Nicaragua: reports of torture and ill-treatment of political prisoners Published at 24.01.2022 Country Nicaragua Category Latest Developments Tags: youth women torture/ill-treatment CSO closure harassment surveillance public vilification Read more
Concern as authorities continue systematic retaliation against civil society Published at 04.02.2022 Country Belarus Category Latest Developments Tags: CSO closure harassment negative court ruling internet restriction political interference restrictive law bureaucratic restriction censorship HRD prosecuted Read more
Ongoing violations on civic freedoms at Poland/Belarus border; further threats to LGBTQI+ rights Published at 21.01.2022 Country Poland Category Latest Developments Tags: LGBTI bureaucratic restriction censorship access to info. law surveillance youth protest disruption office raid non state actors women intimidation harassment criminal defamation positive court ruling refugees and migrants positive CS development attack on journalist negative court ruling protest political interference restrictive law journalist detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Police brutality a continuing cause for concern in Lesotho Published at 21.12.2022 Country Lesotho Category Latest Developments Tags: protest killing of protestors torture/ill-treatment journalist detained protest disruption office raid CSO closure intimidation harassment positive CS development release of HRDs Read more
