Human Rights Watch

Authorities use underhanded tactics to silence critical activists and journalists.

Human Rights Watch noted that intimidation, surveillance, and arbitrary arrests of demonstrators, civil society activists, lawyers, and journalists are continuing under Sri Lanka’s new government.

While thousands of LGBTQI+ people took to the streets to celebrate Pride in June, Turkish authorities responded by attacking rights activists, lawyers, and journalists. According to LGBTQI+ rights group Kaos GL, they also arrested 530 people.

The court decision allows the case to proceed on the merits to examine the genocide allegations against Myanmar’s military forces.

The Ortega administration has systematically shut down human rights organisations and other nongovernmental groups to halt their efforts to expose abuses and the authorities’ inability to provide services.

The report “Prison or Exile: Cuba’s Systematic Repression of July 2021 Demonstrators,” documents a wide range of human rights violations committed in the context of the protests, including arbitrary detention, abuse-ridden prosecutions, and torture.

The Digital Services Act is a promising step forward in respecting rights online, but, argues HRW, it should have closed loopholes that potentially expand government censorship, and could have taken on more directly the surveillance-based business model of dominant platforms.

In video calls, a fake ‘Mayor Klitschko’ spoke with the mayors of Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, and other cities, discussed details about Russia’s war in Ukraine – and called for people fleeing the war to be returned to Ukraine. Notorious Russian prank callers have claimed responsibility.