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Denialism of COVID-19 pandemic and continuous threats to freedom of expression
Published at
09.06.2020
Country
Tajikistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- political interference
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- funding restriction
- intimidation
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- non state actors

Cuba cracking down on dissent using internet regulation and COVID-19 pretence
Published at
10.06.2020
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened
- harassment
- positive CS development
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- HRD prosecuted

Transitional Government Formed Amidst Ongoing Tensions and Restrictions on Freedom of Speech.
Published at
11.06.2020
Country
South Sudan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- censorship
- journalist detained
- release of HRDs
- intimidation

Election period sees clampdown on freedoms; Outgoing president Nkurunziza dies suddenly
Published at
15.06.2020
Country
Burundi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained
- harassment
- HRD killing
- HRD prosecuted

Forte répression des libertés pendant la période électorale et décès soudain du président sortant
Published at
19.06.2020
Country
Burundi
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

Indigenous defender killed and others threatened and attacked in Guatemala
Published at
07.07.2020
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- non state actors
- extractive industries
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened
- land rights

Journalists continue to face physical and verbal attacks
Published at
30.06.2020
Country
Kosovo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- journalist detained
- protest
- intimidation

L'organisme régulateur suspend trois médias, brève détention d'un journaliste et de deux militants
Published at
25.06.2020
Country
Togo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- excessive force

Le harcèlement judiciaire et les arrestations de militants se poursuivent sans relâche
Published at
25.06.2020
Country
Niger
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted

COVID-19 used to curtail freedom of expression further
Published at
24.06.2020
Country
Morocco
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- office raid
- harassment
- protest
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained

Protests in Nepal around COVID-19 met with excessive force while journalists face attacks
Published at
03.07.2020
Country
Nepal
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- restrictive law
- protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

PM condemned for negative rhetoric against media, attempts to shut down TV station
Published at
03.07.2020
Country
Albania
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- public vilification
- sexual assault
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- women
- censorship
- journalist detained

Critics detained for COVID-19 related remarks
Published at
07.07.2020
Country
Azerbaijan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained

Military forced to admit that journalist Samuel Wazizi died in custody, 10 months after his death
Published at
06.07.2020
Country
Cameroon
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- political interference
- censorship
- journalist detained

Honduras enacts new Criminal Code enabling criminalisation of protesters and journalists
Published at
13.07.2020
Country
Honduras
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- women
- indigenous groups
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- non state actors

Militarised police continue to use excessive force against protesters
Published at
13.07.2020
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- protestor(s) detained
- minority groups
- surveillance
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protest
- killing of protestors
- violent protest
- non state actors

Journalists under assault in Brazil with judicial harassment, smear campaigns and vilification
Published at
28.03.2020
Country
Brazil
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- political interference
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
- protest
- public vilification
- killing of journalist
- positive court ruling

Ahead of Sri Lanka elections, lawyers, journalists and activists arrested, threatened and harassed
Published at
17.07.2020
Country
Sri Lanka
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- excessive force
- protest disruption
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- women
- harassment
- surveillance
- journalist detained
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained

Three reporters killed in Mexico, showing increasingly more dangerous environment for journalists
Published at
03.12.2020
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- protest disruption
- youth
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- enabling law
- sexual assault
- killing of journalist
- violent protest
- protest
- refugees and migrants
- journalist detained
- labour rights
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights

Journalists, opposition activists and unionists targeted during pandemic in Cambodia
Published at
23.07.2020
Country
Cambodia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- attack on HRD
- labour rights
- protest
- enforced disappearance
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- environmental rights