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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Haitian photojournalist Vladjimir Legagneur - missing since 14th March
- Published at
- 30.03.2018
- Country
- Haiti
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
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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
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Attacks on civic space continue with threats to dissolve opposition and jailing of judges
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- 31.05.2018
- Country
- Maldives
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- political interference
- bureaucratic restriction
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest
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Septimius Award organisers abducted in Tripoli and held in detention by GNA
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- 18.06.2018
- Country
- Libya
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- torture/ill-treatment
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UN Human Rights Committee slams Laos record on civil and political rights
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- 23.08.2018
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- land rights
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Ahead of elections, abuse of laws crippling Maldives’ nascent democracy says rights group
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- 27.08.2018
- Country
- Maldives
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- criminal defamation
- enforced disappearance
- protest
- restrictive law
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UN urges Bahrain to end restrictions on civic space
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- 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
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Activists threatened and attacked while families of the disappeared protest hearings
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- 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
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Repression of protests killed 15 people in 2018
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- 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
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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
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Kenyan activist disappears ahead of protests while a new cyber crimes law is challenged in court
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- 20.07.2018
- Country
- Kenya
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- harassment
- censorship
- enforced disappearance
- attack on HRD
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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
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Activists call for reform after peace deal with Ethiopia
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- 13.08.2018
- Country
- Eritrea
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- religious groups
- bureaucratic restriction
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Libya: journalist abducted, tortured and murdered
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- 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
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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