Human Rights Watch

After the lifting of a media ban, the public learned that Hong Kong authorities have filed charges against 47 former lawmakers, unionists, academics, and activists due to their peaceful political activities.

The outrageous sentence – believed to be the longest ever imposed on a Saudi woman for her peaceful online expression – is an indicator that Saudi leadership is ramping up repression, as it emerges from diplomatic isolation.

Dozens who were detained during May 2022 protests are facing closed, unfair trials on serious charges – often without access to lawyers or the evidence against them.

An official tasked with presiding over FUNAI, asked the federal police to investigate APIB, Brazil’s main coalition of Indigenous organizations, after it criticized the government. He also requested an investigation of an Indigenous leader and that the intelligence agency “monitor” the activities of the Indigenous people the leader belongs to.

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.