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Further attempts to curtail freedom of expression during COVID-19
- Published at
- 05.06.2020
- Country
- Turkey
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- women
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- excessive force
- internet restriction
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- protestor(s) detained
Judicial harassment and arrests of activists continues unabated
- Published at
- 19.06.2020
- Country
- Niger
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
- women
- HRD detained
- criminal defamation
- journalist detained
Journalists in Bangladesh face criminalisation amid the pandemic while critics are silenced
- Published at
- 19.06.2020
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- enforced disappearance
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- torture/ill-treatment
- internet restriction
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
Government responds to COVID-19 and hurricane with denial, cover-ups and intimidation tactics
- Published at
- 08.06.2020
- Country
- Turkmenistan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- internet restriction
- intimidation
- surveillance
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- protest
Government uses the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to curtail civic freedoms
- Published at
- 19.06.2020
- Country
- Slovenia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- funding restriction
- intimidation
- protest
- political interference
- censorship
- surveillance
- environmental rights
Campesinos and Indigenous peoples mobilise in Paraguay
- Published at
- 25.01.2021
- Country
- Paraguay
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- indigenous groups
- attack on HRD
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- surveillance
- land rights
- environmental rights
- non state actors
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
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
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
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
Crackdown on feminist rallies and harassment of former political prisoners in Nicaragua
- Published at
- 08.04.2020
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- surveillance
- HRD threatened
- protest disruption
Ongoing use of repressive laws, Thai activist abducted, increased surveillance in the South
- Published at
- 22.07.2020
- Country
- Thailand
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- HRD acquitted
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- positive court ruling
- youth
- protest disruption
- surveillance
- labour rights
- criminal defamation
Regional ECOWAS Court of Justice rules that 2017 internet shutdowns violated freedom of expression
- Published at
- 11.08.2020
- Country
- Togo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- surveillance
Papuan activists prosecuted while critics face judicial harassment and digital attacks
- Published at
- 10.08.2020
- Country
- Indonesia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- surveillance
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
- environmental rights
- land rights
Cour de justice de la CEDEAO : les coupures d'Internet en 2017 ont violé la liberté d'expression
- Published at
- 13.08.2020
- Country
- Togo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- surveillance
Catalan independence leaders targeted by spyware; calls to revise ‘Gag Law’ on five-year anniversary
- Published at
- 18.08.2020
- Country
- Spain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- protest
- censorship
- positive court ruling
- prevention of protest
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- surveillance
- non state actors
Hundreds dead after protests, fears over COVID-19 restrictions’ impact on free speech
- Published at
- 20.08.2020
- Country
- Ethiopia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- violent protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- protest disruption
- release of HRDs
- surveillance
- HRD detained
- excessive force
- protest
- internet restriction
- killing of protestors
- protestor(s) detained
Líderes independentistas catalanes bajo vigilancia y llamamientos para revisar la ley de mordaza
- Published at
- 21.08.2020
- Country
- Spain
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- protest
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- surveillance
- non state actors
Pandemic in Brazil aggravates democratic backslide
- Published at
- 25.08.2020
- Country
- Brazil
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- self censorship
- protest disruption
- intimidation
- positive court ruling
- surveillance
- restrictive law
- harassment
- protest
- HRD killing
- women
- political interference
- excessive force
- killing of journalist
- labour rights
- prevention of protest
- internet restriction
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- protestor(s) detained
- non state actors
- attack on journalist
- criminal defamation
- extractive industries
- indigenous groups
- public vilification
Independent Fact-Finding Mission a welcome step, but violations against HRDs, journalists continue
- Published at
- 21.08.2020
- Country
- Libya
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- journalist detained
- office raid
- surveillance
- harassment
- attack on journalist
- HRD detained
- torture/ill-treatment
- HRD threatened