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Three Years Jotna protest: 137 arrested, two radio stations shut down, protest movement banned
Published at
05.02.2020
Country
Gambia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- protest

Further deterioration of press freedom in Ghana
Published at
11.12.2019
Country
Ghana
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- attack on journalist
- access to info. law
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- non state actors

Préoccupations concernant l’espace pour la contestation avant l’élection présidentielle de 2020
Published at
14.02.2020
Country
Côte d'Ivoire
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- private sector
- attack on journalist
- prevention of protest
- extractive industries
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- non state actors

News site blocked while critics and journalists arrested or attacked with impunity in Bangladesh
Published at
19.02.2020
Country
Bangladesh
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- non state actors

Measures to combat "fake news" used to silence journalists
Published at
18.02.2020
Country
Montenegro
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- religious groups
- minority groups
- political interference
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest

At least 28 killed in protests against constitution changes since October 2019
Published at
20.02.2020
Country
Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- protest
- violent protest
- HRD acquitted
- youth
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- positive court ruling
- women

Changement constitutionnel : au moins 28 morts dans les manifestations depuis octobre 2019
Published at
23.02.2020
Country
Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- release of HRDs
- protestor(s) detained
- attack on journalist
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
- youth
- protest disruption
- violent protest
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- killing of protestors
- censorship
- HRD acquitted
- positive court ruling
- women

Cuba bans defenders from travelling and exposes their families to harassment
Published at
27.02.2020
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- intimidation
- journalist detained
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- travel ban
- HRD detained

Censorship hindering free speech "like a brick wall"
Published at
06.03.2020
Country
Turkey
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- HRD detained
- protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- self censorship
- HRD prosecuted

New tax rules impact civil society in Mexico
Published at
22.11.2021
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- harassment
- protest disruption
- killing of journalist
- private sector
- non state actors
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- restrictive law
- journalist detained

Continued attacks on HRDs, journalists and activists through prosecutions
Published at
19.03.2020
Country
Egypt
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
- journalist detained
- restrictive law
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- HRD prosecuted

Unprecedented executive action and rhetoric harm press freedom in the U.S.
Published at
18.03.2020
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- enabling law
- harassment
- public vilification
- bureaucratic restriction
- surveillance
- non state actors
- journalist detained
- women
- indigenous groups
- protestor(s) detained
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- environmental rights

Controversial constitutional referendum goes ahead despite months of protests: several killed
Published at
31.03.2020
Country
Guinea
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- protest
- HRD prosecuted
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- youth
- protest disruption
- censorship
- women
- release of HRDs
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened
- non state actors

Changes ahead or status quo? Presidential promises amidst ongoing prosecution of political activists
Published at
24.03.2020
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- criminal defamation
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- protest disruption
- protest

Canada : un projet de gazoduc sur le territoire Wet'suwet'en provoque des manifestations nationales
Published at
30.03.2020
Country
Canada
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- extractive industries
- time,place restrictions
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights

Contested elections: thousands flee amid renewed violence
Published at
01.02.2021
Country
Central African Republic
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- prevention of protest
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest

Anger and protests over rising gender-based violence in Mexico
Published at
07.04.2020
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- environmental rights
- youth
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- non state actors

'Deal of the Century’ sparks protests, journalists at the frontline face continuous attacks
Published at
01.04.2020
Country
Occupied Palestinian Territories
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- killing of protestors
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest

World Press Freedom Day in Mexico marked by killing of journalist
Published at
20.05.2021
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- environmental rights
- restrictive law
- youth
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- journalist detained
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- non state actors
- land rights

Pashtun activists targeted amid pandemic while press increasingly muzzled in Pakistan
Published at
12.05.2020
Country
Pakistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- harassment
- journalist detained
- HRD killing
- protest
- political interference
- protest disruption
- women
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained