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Trade union leader arrested for insulting royals on social media
Published at
13.08.2018
Country
Spain
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- internet restriction
- censorship
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- criminal defamation

Continued attacks on independent journalists
Published at
06.07.2018
Country
Serbia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- positive CS development
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- access to info. law
- positive court ruling
- women

Criminalisation of free speech creating chilling effect, as elections draws near
Published at
08.08.2018
Country
Fiji
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- negative court ruling
- labour rights
- restrictive law

Anti-corruption journalist Rafael Marques and Mariano Bras acquitted
Published at
09.07.2018
Country
Angola
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- prevention of protest
- protestor(s) detained
- excessive force
- protest
- positive court ruling
- criminal defamation

Slow progress on human rights reforms as new government approaches 100-day mark
Published at
10.08.2018
Country
Malaysia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- intimidation
- positive CS development
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- censorship
- land rights

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

CSOs documented over 130 attacks against the press in the context of elections
Published at
23.07.2018
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- attack on HRD
- harassment
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- killing of journalist
- private sector
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- refugees and migrants
- release of HRDs
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- protest
- journalist detained
- HRD threatened

Somaliland authorities continue attack on free expression
Published at
24.07.2018
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- CSO closure
- release of HRDs
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- negative court ruling

Regulator settles dispute with Amnesty Ireland over foreign funding
Published at
02.08.2018
Country
Ireland
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development
- private sector

La Corte Penal Internacional abre una investigación por crímenes de lesa humanidad en Venezuela
Published at
24.11.2021
Country
Venezuela
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- women
- intimidation
- harassment
- positive CS development
- internet restriction
- torture/ill-treatment
- bureaucratic restriction
- censorship
- access to info. law

Civil society welcomes Supreme Court ruling over same-sex marriage
Published at
11.09.2018
Country
Costa Rica
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- refugees and migrants
- violent protest
- protestor(s) detained
- protest

NGO workers assisting migrants regularly harassed by police
Published at
13.09.2018
Country
France
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- public vilification
- political interference
- positive court ruling
- women
- refugees and migrants
- intimidation
- harassment
- restrictive law

UN urges Somalia to ensure peaceful elections and guarantee freedom of expression
Published at
19.09.2018
Country
Somalia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- killing of journalist
- restrictive law
- positive CS development

Environment for defenders continues to be hostile with one WHRD killed in July
Published at
20.09.2018
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- internet restriction
- political interference
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- environmental rights
- positive court ruling
- women
- indigenous groups
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- HRD killing
- land rights

Court acquitted 11 rural farmers after six years in prison
Published at
21.09.2018
Country
Paraguay
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest
- land rights

One more HRD killed in Guatemala, 21 have been killed so far in 2018
Published at
27.09.2018
Country
Guatemala
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- women
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- HRD killing

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

Political change offers opportunity for human rights reforms
Published at
18.10.2018
Country
Maldives
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- positive CS development

Kazakhstan: Rapid shrinking of civic space and freedoms
Published at
17.10.2018
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- positive court ruling
- attack on HRD
- release of HRDs
- harassment
- HRD detained
- non state actors

Union protest banned, court outlaws broad restriction of protests
Published at
19.10.2018
Country
Zimbabwe
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- enabling law
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- protest