Human Rights Watch

UAE security authorities have neither acknowledged nor given any reason for their detention of Nasser bin Ghaith.

Domestic groups are skeptical about the move signifying real change for Belarus’ repressive regime, especially considering that three other people have recently been detained on apparently politically motivated charges, and many view the pardon as a strategic move by Lukashenka ahead of the next presidential elections, scheduled for October.

This advance for freedom of association in Morocco came 10 years after the Western Sahara group applied and nine years after a court ruled that the government had unlawfully impeded the group from registering.

Police in Almaty accused Ermek Narymbaev organizing an unsanctioned protest after he wrote on Facebook that he was going to Almaty’s central square to hand-deliver a list of demands to local government representatives following the devaluation of the national currency.

Burmese authorities should immediately stop using abusive laws on association and expression to halt the activities of land rights activists, Human Rights Watch said.

Sobir Valiev, deputy head of the Congress of Constructive Forces of Tajikistan, a peaceful opposition group, was detained on August 11, 2015, at the request of the Tajik government by Moldovan migration police in the Chisinau airport before boarding a flight to Istanbul.

A comprehensive review of Hacking Team emails reveals that the company continued to train Ethiopian intelligence agents to hack into computers despite reports that its services were being used to repress government critics.

Free speech in Bangladesh is under attack as never before, held hostage between angry, machete-wielding radicals on one hand and a government, quick to take offence, on the other.