Crackdown against human rights defenders ahead of Bahrain's UPR Published at 09.05.2017 Country Bahrain Category Latest Developments Tags: torture/ill-treatment intimidation harassment travel ban HRD detained protestor(s) detained Read more
Journalist arrested and charged for expressing political views Published at 27.04.2017 Country Somalia Category Latest Developments Tags: torture/ill-treatment journalist detained intimidation harassment attack on journalist negative court ruling non state actors Read more
Activist released then detained by police two weeks later Published at 22.03.2017 Country Russia Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained labour rights protest internet restriction positive CS development prevention of protest torture/ill-treatment access to info. law Read more
Shrinking space for civil society in pre-election Kyrgyzstan Published at 01.05.2017 Country Kyrgyzstan Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption intimidation harassment HRD detained excessive force criminal defamation public vilification torture/ill-treatment bureaucratic restriction time,place restrictions journalist detained surveillance Read more
New constitutional amendments - a false hope for democratisation Published at 06.04.2017 Country Kazakhstan Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation HRD detained negative court ruling labour rights torture/ill-treatment bureaucratic restriction office raid religious groups Read more
Repression of civic freedoms in Azerbaijan only worsens Published at 07.04.2017 Country Azerbaijan Category Latest Developments Tags: intimidation harassment attack on journalist negative court ruling criminal defamation torture/ill-treatment violent protest Read more
19 activists have been murdered in Colombia since January 2017 Published at 03.04.2017 Country Colombia Category Latest Developments Tags: torture/ill-treatment women protest disruption intimidation attack on journalist HRD killing extractive industries non state actors Read more
Egyptian authorities continue their brazen curtailment of civic space Published at 28.03.2017 Country Egypt Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained HRD killing labour rights CSO closure intimidation harassment travel ban torture/ill-treatment Read more
Human rights situation still appalling in post-election Turkmenistan Published at 29.03.2017 Country Turkmenistan Category Latest Developments Tags: release of HRDs harassment bureaucratic restriction intimidation public vilification HRD killing HRD detained enforced disappearance censorship torture/ill-treatment access to info. law surveillance Read more
Unrelenting human rights violations heightened under martial law Published at 19.07.2017 Country Philippines Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship LGBTI women torture/ill-treatment censorship HRD detained HRD killing Read more
Israeli security forces use excessive force against solidarity protesters in Palestine Published at 06.06.2017 Country Occupied Palestinian Territories Category Latest Developments Tags: protestor(s) detained prevention of protest protest disruption torture/ill-treatment excessive force Read more
China increases pressure on dissidents ahead of Communist Party Congress Published at 12.10.2017 Country China Category Latest Developments Tags: refugees and migrants HRD detained protest disruption protest enforced disappearance internet restriction torture/ill-treatment censorship surveillance Read more
North Korea crowned worst in the world for freedom of expression Published at 06.06.2017 Country North Korea Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship surveillance torture/ill-treatment Read more
Rights violations abound ahead of the Asiada Games Published at 21.07.2017 Country Turkmenistan Category Latest Developments Tags: time,place restrictions torture/ill-treatment political interference Read more
HRDs arrested and subjected to ill-treatment in UAE prisons Published at 09.06.2017 Country United Arab Emirates Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship HRD detained torture/ill-treatment HRD prosecuted internet restriction Read more
Undaunted by severe state suppression of peaceful assembly, Venezuelans protest Published at 09.06.2017 Country Venezuela Category Latest Developments Tags: killing of protestors torture/ill-treatment protest disruption office raid censorship women intimidation harassment surveillance attack on journalist excessive force internet restriction prevention of protest protestor(s) detained Read more
Two months after mass protests, activists remain in custody and journalists harrassed Published at 15.06.2017 Country Belarus Category Latest Developments Tags: criminal defamation torture/ill-treatment journalist detained protestor(s) detained women intimidation harassment HRD detained HRD prosecuted Read more
Police use excessive force to quell protest in Duraz - 5 killed, hundreds arrested Published at 16.06.2017 Country Bahrain Category Latest Developments Tags: torture/ill-treatment women sexual assault harassment HRD detained HRD threatened killing of protestors negative court ruling protestor(s) detained excessive force protest disruption censorship bureaucratic restriction attack on HRD environmental rights Read more
Exiled journalist kidnapped in Georgia and now in the hands of Azerbaijani police Published at 16.06.2017 Country Azerbaijan Category Latest Developments Tags: attack on journalist HRD detained negative court ruling protest enforced disappearance torture/ill-treatment political interference journalist detained HRD threatened HRD prosecuted Read more
Litany of abuses continues, even under Expo-2017 spotlight Published at 01.08.2017 Country Kazakhstan Category Latest Developments Tags: religious groups intimidation HRD detained torture/ill-treatment labour rights internet restriction restrictive law HRD acquitted censorship HRD prosecuted Read more
Saudi authorities execute four men for participating in protests Published at 10.08.2017 Country Saudi Arabia Category Latest Developments Tags: women negative court ruling torture/ill-treatment release of HRDs Read more
