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Opposition protests come to an end ahead of elections
Published at
07.07.2017
Country
Albania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- LGBTI
- criminal defamation
- protest

Journalist and trade unionist charged with defamation for criticising an arbitrary arrest
Published at
25.07.2017
Country
Gabon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- protest disruption
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- journalist detained

Serious concerns over threats against minority rights activists and WHRDs in Thailand
Published at
17.07.2017
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD threatened
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- censorship
- criminal defamation

Pipeline protestors met with force by Italian police
Published at
24.07.2017
Country
Italy
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- surveillance
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- access to info. law
- non state actors
- environmental rights
- land rights

Justice advocates and government critics continue to feel the heat in Kazakhstan
Published at
12.06.2017
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

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

Protesters mobilise against proposed constitutional revisions
Published at
17.07.2017
Country
Mali
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest
- protest disruption
- criminal defamation

Rights violations intensify ahead of August elections
Published at
06.07.2017
Country
Angola
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained

Journalist acquitted of defamation charges
Published at
11.08.2017
Country
Burkina Faso
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation

Pressure on critical voices mounts ahead of October presidential election
Published at
24.08.2017
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- restrictive law
- surveillance
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- protestor(s) detained

UN decisions set important precedents in view of unrelenting rights violations
Published at
19.09.2017
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- protest disruption
- protest
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Intimidation, prosecution and detention: closing spaces for dissent in Thailand
Published at
29.09.2017
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- labour rights
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- criminal defamation
- HRD detained
- private sector
- extractive industries
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- non state actors

Critical voices silenced in the Solomon Islands amid the pandemic
Published at
09.06.2020
Country
Solomon Islands
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- political interference
- criminal defamation

Criminalisation of speech on the rise in Uruguay in recent months
Published at
20.09.2017
Country
Uruguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- criminal defamation

Lèse-majesté laws used to silence dissidents
Published at
31.10.2017
Country
Thailand
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law

Freedom of expression restrictions cast a cloud over presidential election
Published at
27.10.2017
Country
Kyrgyzstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- religious groups
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- protest
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- surveillance

Madagascar: "Almost if not all environmentalists are under threat"
Published at
13.10.2017
Country
Madagascar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- political interference
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- HRD acquitted
- harassment
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Opposing voices and views on presidential age limit removal not tolerated
Published at
07.11.2017
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- environmental rights
- non state actors
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- extractive industries
- killing of protestors
- private sector
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- HRD prosecuted

Museveni signs controversial bill as crackdown on civic space continues
Published at
23.01.2018
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- killing of protestors
- women
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- prevention of protest
- protest disruption

Student activists ill-treated by security forces during protests
Published at
31.01.2018
Country
Indonesia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- labour rights
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- private sector
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
- attack on HRD