GHANA: Massive crackdown on media as 34 stations are shutdown and 97 are fined Read more
GUINEA: Protestors injured as police fire live bullets on protestors Read more
HONDURAS: Police attack human rights defenders who were attempting to support arrested students Read more
INDIA: Free speech threatened after prominent journalist is murdered Read more
Home Ministry puts 1 200 foreign funded NGOs on notice for violations Read more
Police beat up reporter after unflattering report Read more
INDONESIA: Legal aid offices attacked in political squabble Read more
IRAN: Human rights activist who was on hunger strike beaten and taken to solitary confinement Read more
MAURITIUS: Three journalists arrested over story that got justice minister fired Read more
NIGERIA: Experts warn NGO Regulation Bill is a threat to democracy Read more
POLAND: Government takes steps to control NGO funding by setting up oversight body for funding Read more
RUSSIA: Human rights activist charged with violating propaganda law after social media posts on LGBTI rights Read more
SAUDI ARABIA: Authorities intensify crackdown against freedom of
speech by arresting over 20 prominent religious figures, writers,
journalists, academics and activists Read more
State asks citizens to report “subversive comments” on social media Read more
SINGAPORE: 17 summoned by police for participating in vigil for executed migrant worker Read more
SLOVENIA: Civil society writes to authorities raising concern about environmental activists and organisations Read more
SYRIA: Activist and daughter found dead in Turkey Read more
TANZANIA: State to license blogs and websites as part of new online media regulation Read more
Critical newspaper shutdown for the second time in three months, accused of ‘inciting violence’ Read more
TOGO: Togo shuts down Internet access in wake of protests calling for presidential term limits Read more
TURKEY: 14 lawyers detained and charged for belonging to “terrorist organisation” Read more
UGANDA: Police raid offices of two NGOs looking for ‘suspicious transactions’ Read more
Live broadcasts of parliamentary sessions banned after MPs brawl Read more
Civic space restricted as presidential age limit debate rages on Read more
Company guards shoot at human rights defender who has campaigned against the company Read more
URUGUAY: Criminalisation of free speech on the rise Read more
VIETNAM: Human rights defender sentenced to five years for “attempting to overthrow the government” Read more
VENEZUELA: UN calls for investigation into possible crimes against humanity Read more
CSOs express outrage over media shutdown Read more
Cambodia Centre for Independent Media: Challenges for Independent Media 2016 Download here
CIVICUS: Peers and Partners: Empowering Children to take civic action Download here
Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalists Not Terrorists: In
Cameroon, anti-terror legislation is used to silence critics and
suppress dissent Download here
Crude Accountability: Dangerous Work: Increasing Pressure on
Environmental Activists in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union and
the US Download here
Gulf Centre for Human Rights: Yemen: Report on the situation of human rights Download here
International Partnership for Human Rights: Repression beyond borders: Exiled Azerbaijanis in Georgia Download here
International Campaign for Human Rights in the United Arab Emirates Download here
AZERBAIJAN: Human rights activist released but placed under house arrest Read more
CAMEROON: Human rights defender released Read more
Cote D’Ivoire: Controversial media bill withdrawn for further scrutiny Read more
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Charges dropped against 11 arrested for planning protest Read more
EGYPT: Protestor acquitted four years after Cairo protest arrest Read more
MONGOLIA: New law passed to protect LGBTI community Read more
NICARAGUA: Activist reported missing released after being held illegally for 40 hours Read more
NIGER: Provisional release for journalist after two month arrest Read more
Police sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting journalist Read more
PALESTINE: Activist jailed under electronic crimes law for Facebook post released on bail Read more
CIVICUS
speaks to Medardo Mairena Sequeira, Coordinator of the National Council
for the Defence of the Land, Lake and Sovereignty, a social movement
organised in opposition to the construction of the projected
Inter-Oceanic Canal in Nicaragua. Read more
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