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Dual personality cult, arbitrary travel bans and zero-tolerance approach to public criticism
Published at
13.06.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship

Vietnam: Trade unionists, activists and journalist criminalised despite UN human rights review
Published at
18.07.2024
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Ongoing crackdown on civic space ahead of COP29 as more activists, journalists detained
Published at
12.06.2024
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- prevention of protest
- time,place restrictions
- environmental rights

Pakistan: Authorities continue to silence dissent with crackdown on Baloch and other activists, protesters and journalists
Published at
03.10.2024
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- women
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

135 political prisoners expelled from Nicaragua; closure of 1,500 CSOs within one month
Published at
23.10.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship
Arrests, detentions, attacks; no respite for journalists
Published at
30.09.2024
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- censorship
- access to info. law

Media in Djibouti continues to be tightly controlled
Published at
30.10.2024
Country
Djibouti
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- travel ban
Restrictions persist amidst Rwanda’s elections
Published at
31.07.2024
Country
Rwanda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction

Authorities continue clampdown against pro-Palestine protests and expression
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Jordan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- refugees and migrants
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Expulsan a 135 personas presas políticas y cierran 1500 OSC en un mes
Published at
15.11.2024
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- indigenous groups
- office raid
- CSO closure
- minority groups
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- religious groups
- attack on journalist
- travel ban
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship

"Agents of influence" bill reintroduced; protests repressed, press freedom under attack
Published at
01.11.2024
Country
Turkey
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- CSO closure
- intimidation
- travel ban
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- LGBTI
- women
- refugees and migrants
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- violent protest
- political interference
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Civic freedoms under threat amid disputed presidential elections
Published at
09.11.2024
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained

Turkmenistan: Economic hardship, repression, and targeting of critics at home and abroad
Published at
19.11.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- censorship

Crackdown on dissent over nuclear power plant, controversial media accreditation rules, and anti-‘’LGBTQI+ propaganda’’ measures
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted

Philippines: Activists remain at risk of red-tagging, disappearances and fabricated terrorism charges
Published at
06.01.2025
Country
Philippines
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- travel ban
- labour rights
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

New Penal Code reinforces repressive climate; journalists pardoned
Published at
31.10.2024
Country
Algeria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- journalist detained

Pakistan: Government criminalises activists, increases online controls and cracks down on protests by the opposition and ethnic groups
Published at
26.02.2025
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- prevention of protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- women
- minority groups
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- place restrictions

India: Indigenous movement banned, protests stifled while activists and journalists targeted
Published at
01.03.2025
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- extractive industries
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights