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Protesters in Myanmar face arbitrary arrest, prosecution and excessive force
Published at
01.04.2019
Country
Myanmar
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights

Hundreds arrested as clashes reported during a series of anti-government protests
Published at
25.01.2019
Country
Belgium
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- refugees and migrants
- protest
- violent protest

Human rights defenders arrested and journalists injured
Published at
03.12.2018
Country
Syria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- censorship
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- non state actors

Protesters killed, journalists detained and media outlets set ablaze during wave of protests
Published at
03.12.2018
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protestor(s) detained
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- journalist detained
- women

Protests violently dispersed, journalists detained
Published at
22.01.2019
Country
Uganda
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- criminal defamation
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

After 62 days in hunger strike, Tomas Nuñez was released
Published at
13.12.2018
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- torture/ill-treatment
- release of HRDs
- travel ban
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- protest

Atlantic Council declared an undesirable organisation by authorities
Published at
02.09.2019
Country
Russia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- HRD killing
- negative court ruling
- excessive force
- protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Arbitrary arrests of pro-democracy activists ahead of 23rd December elections
Published at
19.12.2018
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- HRD detained
- protest
- killing of protestors
- torture/ill-treatment
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained

Yemen's human rights record examined by the UN as human rights defenders arrested
Published at
19.02.2019
Country
Yemen
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- journalist detained
- release of HRDs
- criminal defamation
- intimidation

Activists continue to face detention for opposing law restricting artistic expression
Published at
24.01.2019
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- travel ban
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- youth
- protest

Government shutdown drives workers to protest Washington's inaction
Published at
31.01.2019
Country
United States of America
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- indigenous groups
- refugees and migrants
- positive CS development
- protestor(s) detained
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- environmental rights

Activistas siguen siendo detenidos por oponerse a una ley que restringe la expresión artística
Published at
29.01.2019
Country
Cuba
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- prevention of protest
- travel ban
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- protest

Concerns about freedom of expression in Nigeria: journalists arrested, protests repressed
Published at
19.11.2019
Country
Nigeria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- office raid
- intimidation
- protest
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- violent protest
- killing of journalist
- prevention of protest
- political interference
- killing of protestors
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- private sector
- non state actors
- protestor(s) detained
- women
- religious groups
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- HRD prosecuted

Six people arrested during clashes with the police
Published at
28.01.2019
Country
Panama
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- labour rights
- protest

Ongoing attacks on journalists and activists, as elections draw near
Published at
12.02.2019
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- funding restriction
- private sector
- women
- youth
- attack on HRD
- journalist detained
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- criminal defamation
- environmental rights

Reinforced authoritarianism – sentencing of opposition activists, surveillance of citizens
Published at
01.02.2019
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protestor(s) detained
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- surveillance
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted

HRD and media activist killed, government found culpable for killing of foreign correspondent
Published at
18.02.2019
Country
Syria
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- killing of journalist
- journalist detained
- HRD killing
- non state actors

Freedom of expression under severe threat as journalist and writer killed in Iraq
Published at
26.02.2019
Country
Iraq
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- killing of journalist

Human rights groups decry deteriorating situation as peace agreement remains unimplemented
Published at
05.09.2019
Country
South Sudan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD killing
- criminal defamation
- political interference
- censorship
- women
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- journalist detained

Two leaders of Nicaraguan protests sentenced to more than 200 years in prison
Published at
22.02.2019
Country
Nicaragua
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- office raid
- harassment
- negative court ruling
- prevention of protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors