Media regulator suspends three media outlets, two HRDs and one journalist briefly detained Published at 19.06.2020 Country Togo Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD detained journalist detained release of HRDs harassment censorship attack on journalist excessive force Read more
Denialism of COVID-19 pandemic and continuous threats to freedom of expression Published at 09.06.2020 Country Tajikistan Category Latest Developments Tags: funding restriction intimidation harassment negative court ruling internet restriction political interference restrictive law censorship journalist detained non state actors Read more
Cuba cracking down on dissent using internet regulation and COVID-19 pretence Published at 10.06.2020 Country Cuba Category Latest Developments Tags: harassment positive CS development HRD detained negative court ruling internet restriction torture/ill-treatment restrictive law journalist detained HRD threatened HRD prosecuted Read more
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 Read more
Election period sees clampdown on freedoms; Outgoing president Nkurunziza dies suddenly Published at 15.06.2020 Country Burundi Category Latest Developments Tags: harassment HRD killing negative court ruling internet restriction political interference censorship journalist detained HRD prosecuted Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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: protest disruption intimidation attack on journalist excessive force protest restrictive law journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
PM condemned for negative rhetoric against media, attempts to shut down TV station Published at 03.07.2020 Country Albania Category Latest Developments Tags: women attack on journalist excessive force protest public vilification sexual assault censorship journalist detained Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
Honduras enacts new Criminal Code enabling criminalisation of protesters and journalists Published at 13.07.2020 Country Honduras Category Latest Developments Tags: women indigenous groups minority groups intimidation harassment HRD killing internet restriction killing of journalist restrictive law journalist detained non state actors Read more
Militarised police continue to use excessive force against protesters Published at 13.07.2020 Country United States of America Category Latest Developments Tags: protest disruption minority groups surveillance positive CS development attack on journalist excessive force protest killing of protestors violent protest bureaucratic restriction journalist detained protestor(s) detained non state actors Read more
Journalists under assault in Brazil with judicial harassment, smear campaigns and vilification Published at 28.03.2020 Country Brazil Category Latest Developments Tags: positive court ruling protest disruption women intimidation harassment attack on journalist excessive force protest public vilification killing of journalist political interference journalist detained protestor(s) detained land rights Read more
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: protest disruption women harassment surveillance HRD detained excessive force protest torture/ill-treatment journalist detained protestor(s) detained Read more
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 intimidation excessive force killing of journalist women refugees and migrants attack on journalist labour rights protest sexual assault violent protest enabling law journalist detained protestor(s) detained HRD prosecuted environmental rights Read more
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 Read more
