Human Rights Watch

As soon as President Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency began, on 1 January 2019, he began taking steps to deliver on his anti-rights agenda.

At least 30 activists and dissidents were sentenced to prison in Vietnam in 2019 simply for exercising their fundamental rights to freedom of expression, association, and religion.

In its 2020 World Report, Human Rights Watch examines the bloody crackdown on freedom of expression in Iran over the past year as authorities have moved to silence a new wave of domestic dissent.

In 2019, over 50 imprisoned human rights defenders, journalists, opposition activists and religious believers were released, but at least 30 others remained wrongfully imprisoned, while authorities regularly targeted other dissenting voices.

In HRW’s 2020 World Report, Akshaya Kumar looks at the governments around the world that are shutting down access to the internet, how they’re doing it, and how activists are trying to work around it.

At least 313 people are currently facing charges, are on trial, or have been convicted of criminal “extremism” for engaging in Jehovah’s Witnesses’ activities, or are suspects in such cases. There have been at least 780 house raids since 2017.

Masked individuals entered Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi and attacked more than 30 students and teachers.

In a new report, Human Rights Watch examines Israel’s use of draconian military orders to repress Palestinians by criminalizing nonviolent political activity, and restricting their right to freedom of expression, assembly and association.