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Laos: Social media critic arrested for exposing bribery while land rights protesters detained
- Published at
- 07.05.2024
- Country
- Laos
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- minority groups
- harassment
- protestor(s) detained
- land rights
Civic space deteriorates further as “foreign agent”-style NGO law is adopted and media crackdown widens
- Published at
- 25.04.2024
- Country
- Kyrgyzstan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- funding restriction
- place restrictions
- office raid
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- public vilification
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- time,place restrictions
- censorship
- journalist detained
- HRD prosecuted
Myanmar: Political prisoners tortured and killed with impunity while journalists and social media activists remain at risk
- Published at
- 20.04.2024
- Country
- Myanmar
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD killing
- killing of journalist
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- journalist detained
- protestor(s) detained
Protests and meetings over controversial constitutional reform banned; journalist arrested
- Published at
- 19.04.2024
- Country
- Togo
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
- censorship
- journalist detained
- prevention of protest
Prominent Bedoon Rights Defender Mohammed Al-Barghash sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour
- Published at
- 16.04.2024
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
Japan: Local governments restrict journalists while union members sacked following strike
- Published at
- 16.04.2024
- Country
- Japan
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- LGBTI
- labour rights
- protest
- bureaucratic restriction
Woman human rights defender, blogger and Wikipedian targeted in Saudi Arabia
- Published at
- 15.04.2024
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- enforced disappearance
Bangladesh: Criminalisation of activists and crackdown on protests continue following one-sided elections
- Published at
- 12.04.2024
- Country
- Bangladesh
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- protest disruption
- women
- intimidation
- attack on journalist
- excessive force
- criminal defamation
- labour rights
- protest
- prevention of protest
- torture/ill-treatment
- restrictive law
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted
- non state actors
Maldives: Critical websites blocked while journalists, civil society continue to face challenges
- Published at
- 08.04.2024
- Country
- Maldives
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- positive court ruling
- women
- positive CS development
- labour rights
- restrictive law
- censorship
Singapore: Harassment of pro-Palestinian, anti-death penalty activism and misuse of POFMA law to silence dissent
- Published at
- 05.04.2024
- Country
- Singapore
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- restrictive law
- women
- protest
Women's rights activist murdered in her home
- Published at
- 30.03.2024
- Country
- Syria
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- women
- HRD killing
- HRD threatened
- torture/ill-treatment