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PACE urges Azerbaijan to reform restrictive NGO laws
- Published at
- 09.08.2017
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- restrictive law
Kyrgyz president slams HRDs' efforts
- Published at
- 03.07.2017
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD threatened
- environmental rights
- protest disruption
- harassment
- travel ban
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- censorship
- surveillance
- minority groups
- attack on journalist
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
Authorities continue to crack down on protests and detain online critics in Sri Lanka, despite UN human rights review
- Published at
- 17.02.2023
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- restrictive law
- HRD detained
- protestor(s) detained
- criminal defamation
Trade union concerned over proposed bill to curtail right to strike
- Published at
- 23.05.2017
- Country
- Burkina Faso
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on journalist
- labour rights
- restrictive law
Civil society concerned over proposed bill to limit free speech ahead of elections
- Published at
- 24.05.2017
- Country
- Fiji
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
Closing space for indigenous activists to protect communities' land rights
- Published at
- 04.09.2017
- Country
- Bolivia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- indigenous groups
- women
- excessive force
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
Tanzanian authorities threaten HRDs, LGBTI activists and journalists
- Published at
- 18.07.2017
- Country
- Tanzania
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- political interference
- restrictive law
- intimidation
- harassment
- censorship
- HRD detained
New state laws increase penalties for protest actions in Oklahoma
- Published at
- 06.06.2017
- Country
- United States of America
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- extractive industries
- violent protest
- censorship
- political interference
- positive court ruling
- restrictive law
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
Arrests, detentions and murders: Crackdown on media continues
- Published at
- 04.12.2017
- Country
- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- killing of journalist
- self censorship
- bureaucratic restriction
- women
- public vilification
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Civil society vilified for opposing electoral changes in Moldova
- Published at
- 12.07.2017
- Country
- Moldova
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- protest
Proposed ban on face veils undermines Norway's free speech ranking
- Published at
- 20.07.2017
- Country
- Norway
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- LGBTI
- women
- refugees and migrants
- religious groups
- intimidation
- non state actors
New Russian laws to further limit internet use and curtail freedom of expression
- Published at
- 24.07.2017
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- protest disruption
- CSO closure
- HRD prosecuted
Protesters taking to the streets face excessive force from police
- Published at
- 28.07.2017
- Country
- Panama
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- protest disruption
- excessive force
- harassment
- protest
- violent protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
Canada's ranking worsens on World Press Freedom Index 2017
- Published at
- 08.06.2017
- Country
- Canada
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive CS development
- surveillance
- labour rights
- restrictive law
Chinese laws further suppress and squeeze out civil society
- Published at
- 28.06.2017
- Country
- China
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- surveillance
- excessive force
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
#IAmMyOwnGuardian activists detained and harassed for defending women's rights
- Published at
- 19.06.2017
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- women
- religious groups
- protestor(s) detained
- intimidation
- harassment
- release of HRDs
- HRD detained
- travel ban
- negative court ruling
- internet restriction
- environmental rights
Burmese civil society fights back against restrictions on freedom of expression
- Published at
- 22.06.2017
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- women
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- protest
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- HRD threatened
Tajik NGOs, journalists and lawyers under pressure in a repressive state
- Published at
- 23.06.2017
- Country
- Tajikistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- political interference
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted
Mongolian media goes dark to protest restrictive law
- Published at
- 28.06.2017
- Country
- Mongolia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- restrictive law
- intimidation
NetzDG law enacted to combat hate speech but raises fears of censorship
- Published at
- 06.12.2017
- Country
- Germany
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- censorship
- restrictive law