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Interdiction systématique des manifestations; harcèlement judiciaire des défenseurs des droits humains
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Republic of the Congo
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- prevention of protest
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Crackdown on dissent over nuclear power plant, controversial media accreditation rules, and anti-‘’LGBTQI+ propaganda’’ measures
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Kazakhstan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- LGBTI
- protest disruption
- journalist detained
- intimidation
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- HRD detained
- refusal of registration
- criminal defamation
- protest
- public vilification
- prevention of protest
- restrictive law
- censorship
- access to info. law
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
Activists, journalists and bloggers arrested and jailed while new decrees to control associations and the internet come into effect
Published at
19.12.2024
Country
Vietnam
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
- environmental rights
Afghanistan: Arrests of activists and crackdown on journalists persists as the Taliban ramp up their controls on women
Published at
18.12.2024
Country
Afghanistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- harassment
- HRD detained
- protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- censorship
- journalist detained
Mongolia: Civic freedoms at risk as prominent journalist jailed in closed-door hearings and protests against Putin‘s visit disrupted
Published at
03.12.2024
Country
Mongolia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- harassment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Hong Kong: Jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists, Stand News editors and critics highlights climate of repression
Published at
28.11.2024
Country
Hong Kong
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- restrictive law
- bureaucratic restriction
- HRD prosecuted
China: Human rights defenders criminalised as well as face harassment, surveillance and transnational repression
Published at
27.11.2024
Country
China
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- protest
- censorship
- journalist detained
- surveillance
- HRD prosecuted
Violence targets journalists and human rights defenders without end
Published at
22.11.2024
Country
Colombia
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- self censorship
- attack on HRD
- intimidation
- HRD killing
- protest
- public vilification
- internet restriction
- killing of journalist
- enabling law
- HRD threatened
- non state actors
India: Death of human rights defender and continued repression of dissent highlights risks facing activists
Published at
20.11.2024
Country
India
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- youth
- women
- minority groups
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- labour rights
- bureaucratic restriction
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Turkmenistan: Economic hardship, repression, and targeting of critics at home and abroad
Published at
19.11.2024
Country
Turkmenistan
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- release of HRDs
- transnational repression
- travel ban
- internet restriction
- censorship
Killing of activist amidst wave of violence in Chiapas
Published at
18.11.2024
Country
Mexico
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- attack on HRD
- sexual assault
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- HRD killing
- excessive force
- enforced disappearance
- killing of journalist
- violent protest
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained