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UN Human Rights Committee slams Laos record on civil and political rights
- Published at
- 23.08.2018
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- land rights
UN urges Bahrain to end restrictions on civic space
- Published at
- 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
Activists continue to face persecution as thousands mark Tiananmen anniversary in Hong Kong
- Published at
- 05.07.2018
- Country
- China
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- women
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- protest
Saudi authorities detain women human rights defenders in latest crackdown
- Published at
- 29.08.2018
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- HRD prosecuted
Blogger Naïm Touré sentenced to two months in prison
- Published at
- 17.07.2018
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
Scores of anti-war protesters prosecuted across Myanmar
- Published at
- 18.07.2018
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Hun Sen increases restrictions on media and online expression in Cambodia ahead of elections
- Published at
- 20.07.2018
- Country
- Cambodia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted
- bureaucratic restriction
- positive court ruling
- HRD killing
- HRD acquitted
- negative court ruling
- environmental rights
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- land rights
Singapore Public Order Act used to restrict or criminalise expression and peaceful assembly
- Published at
- 26.07.2018
- Country
- Singapore
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted
- criminal defamation
HRDs given three-month suspended prison sentences
- Published at
- 26.07.2018
- Country
- Niger
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
CIVICUS Monitor Speaks to Lebanese Center for Human Rights
- Published at
- 30.07.2018
- Country
- Lebanon
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
An ever-closing space for dissent: India cracks down on human rights defenders
- Published at
- 31.08.2018
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- HRD prosecuted
Prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor sentenced to ten years imprisonment
- Published at
- 05.09.2018
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- criminal defamation
UN and rights group findings show systematic repression of Muslims from the Xinjiang Uighur region
- Published at
- 14.09.2018
- Country
- China
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- surveillance
- enforced disappearance
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
UN fact-finding mission finds serious crimes fuelled by the silencing of critical voices
- Published at
- 19.09.2018
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- protest
- criminal defamation
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Conviction of former General involved in disappearances of activists important step for justice
- Published at
- 21.09.2018
- Country
- Philippines
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- HRD killing
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
India: Routine Repression of Civil Society
- Published at
- 25.09.2018
- Country
- India
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- journalist detained
- youth
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- HRD threatened
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- HRD prosecuted
- protest
- public vilification
- political interference
- non state actors
Kabila not running for another term, but human rights concerns persist
- Published at
- 27.09.2018
- Country
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- protest
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD threatened
- land rights
Humanitarian NGO volunteers arrested, facing up to 20 years in jail
- Published at
- 02.10.2018
- Country
- Greece
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- refugees and migrants
- HRD prosecuted
Authorities arrest HRDs, target family members and sentence journalists to lashings & imprisonment
- Published at
- 08.10.2018
- Country
- Iran
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Despite release of activists, suppression continues after ‘sham’ elections
- Published at
- 11.10.2018
- Country
- Cambodia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- positive court ruling
- women
- HRD prosecuted
- land rights
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- criminal defamation