Philippines: media workers threatened, shot at for covering violent demolition
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Philippines: peasant community members injured for protesting land seizure
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Vietnam: family members of detained defenders harassed by the police
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Cambodia: 29 residents charged over ongoing land dispute, 25 detained (Update)
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Philippines: singer and detained, deported
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Philippines: ten NGO workers, including seven WHRDs, faces prolonged harassment (Update)
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Cambodia: local residents intimidated by armed forces over disputed land, few arrested
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Sri Lanka: students met with police violence
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Thailand: factory workers' protest faced police blockade
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India: media worker arrested for reporting a murder investigation
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China: two Tibetan protest leaders transferred to detention center (Update)
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China: SOGI rights defender faces further harassment after early release (Update)
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Kazakhstan: HRD beaten, arrested
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Thailand: three pro-democracy HRDs charged with sedition over 2021 protest
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Afghanistan: university professor handed down 1-year imprisonment as “disciplinary imprisonment”
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Cambodia: three villagers questioned by court over incitement charges (Update)
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Vietnam: independent journalist arrested for anti-state propaganda
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Vietnam: social media activist detained for distributing anti-state propaganda
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Nepal: media worker threatened for reporting on corruption
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Nepal: media worker brutally attacked while reporting a clash with the police
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China: demonstrators surrounded by police in Hong Kong
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Cambodia: land rights defenders injured in scuffle with authorities
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Pakistan: blogger arrested days after interrogation
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Vietnam: WHRD received another summons for criticising conglomerate (Update)
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Philippines: civil servant and local NGO worker induced to suicide
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Thailand: pro-democracy HRDs' bail denied again (Update)
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Cambodia: NGO's photo exhibition shut down by authorities
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China: ethnic Tibetans under arrest get interrogated, beaten (Update)
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China: Tibetans face further crackdown as arrest reaches 1,000 individuals (Update)
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Nepal: media worker manhandled while reporting
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China: over 100 ethnic Tibetans arrested for mass protest
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Cambodia: three land rights defenders' conviction upheld in appeal
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Nepal: media workers briefly detained for reporting
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India: youth farmer killed, at least 13 more injured
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Sri Lanka: court bars community protest
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Thailand: WHRD blocked from protesting during Hun Sen visit
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Nepal: RTI activist berated for seeking information
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Thailand: pro-democracy WHRD faces royal defamation charge for protest speech
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India: media worker judicially harassed for reporting abuse allegations
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Thailand: youth HRD arrested for royal defamation over social media post
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China: filmmaker formally charged for human rights film
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China: terminally ill Hong Kong HRD jailed for planning a protest
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Pakistan: father of two WHRDs is killed
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Vietnam: wife of jailed HRD interrogated, possibly surveilled
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Cambodia: four indigenous villagers summoned over land dispute (Update)
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Cambodia: four land rights defenders verdict upheld
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India: media worker attacked, threatened while covering farmers protest
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Cambodia: newly-elected union leader arbitrarily arrested
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Indonesia: film director and three legal experts reported over critical documentary
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Kyrgyzstan: media worker confined to house arrest
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Thailand: human rights pro bono lawyer firm threatened with armed attack
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India: farmers' protest march met with tear gas and water cannon, dozen arrested
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Philippines: spouse of detained unionist arrested
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Vietnam: imprisoned HRD deprived of canteen food, restricted access to hot water (Update)
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Thailand: two media workers charged for reporting anti-monarch vandalism
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Kazakhstan: website dedicated to LGBTIQ+ community blocked by authorities
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Thailand: pro-democracy HRDs faced multiple charges, denied bail
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Cambodia: indigenous defenders allegedly assaulted by agribusiness company
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Nepal: two media workers arrested for reporting police mismanagement
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Thailand: pro-democracy HRDs and citizen journalists attacked by ultra-royalists
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India: three defenders assaulted, one faces judicial harassment
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Kyrgyzstan: independent media outlet ordered to shut down (Update)
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Myanmar: pro-democracy WHRD shot dead
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Vietnam: Khmer Krom HRD sentenced to 3.5 years
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Cambodia: environmental defender convicted (Update)
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Nepal: media worker attacked for reporting local conflict
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Kyrgyzstan: WHRD detained after being extradited from Russia
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Cambodia: NGO staff sued for defamation by former PM and ruling party
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China: pro-democracy WHRD convicted for inciting subversion (Update)
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Kazakhstan: WHRD staging solo protest attacked
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Thailand: Cambodian defenders, family members arrested
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Indonesia: academics intimidated into praising the Jokowi administration amidst critics
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Vietnam: Wife of jailed HRD fined, her trade goods confiscated
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Philippines: artist arrested
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China: two students journalists found guilty in Hong Kong
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Sri Lanka: ten arrested for demanding action on former minister
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Myanmar: media worker shot dead in military custody
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Cambodia: two labour rights defenders sacked after union election
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Sri Lanka: 10 protesters arrested for demanding former health minister's arrest
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Vietnam: environmental and pro-democracy HRD interrogated over critical videos
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Sri Lanka: pro-democracy HRD arrested for publishing phone call recording
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Pakistan: Pashto minority rights defenders arrested
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Thailand: pro-democracy WHRD's bail revoked, sentenced in a new case
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Vietnam: minority religious rights defender sentenced to jail
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Kazakhstan: pro-democracy defender sentenced to 15 days, beaten during arrest
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China: Hong Kong WHRD and lawyer had her acquittal overturned (Update)
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Philippines: writer and community-based defender arrested, held incommunicado
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India: media worker assaulted after seeking police protection
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Lao PDR: land rights defender arrested for protesting land grabbing
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Thailand: lecturers and student indicted for staging a protest (Update)
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Myanmar: student WHRD dies as result of poor medical care in prison
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India: Dalit HRD and students detained for protesting discrimination
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Thailand: pro-democracy HRD charged with royal defamation
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Vietnam: WHRD summoned over defamation complaint
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Philippines: two community-based defenders murdered
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Sri Lanka: students blocked from staging protest
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Vietnam: detained pro-democracy defender disciplined for insulting prison officer (Update)
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Malaysia: filmmakers charged with blasphemy law, given gag order
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Thailand: prominent pro-democracy lawyer gets fresh conviction
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Kyrgyzstan: major crackdown on independent media
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Pakistan: media worker faces judicial harassment for covering protest
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Kyrgyzstan: independent media outlet searched, its management questioned
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Kazakhstan: families of killed protesters detained for demanding justice
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Cambodia: land rights defenders temporarily blocked by authorities
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Thailand: pro-democracy defender receives record sentence (Update)
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Myanmar: filmmaker gets life sentence after unfair trial
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India: Dalit professor detained for protesting unfair dismissal
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Afghanistan: community-based defender appreheded by the Taliban
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Cambodia: NGO staff handed down suspended jail term (Update)
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Nepal: media worker attacked while reporting
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China: investigative media worker sentenced to 15 years in prison on trumped-up charges (Update)
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Cambodia: HRD arrested after social media comments
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Sri Lanka: two family members of the disappeared arrested for protesting
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India: media workers attacked during clashes
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Philippines: detained media worker vilified
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Kazakhstan: pro-democracy defenders detained for protesting jailed colleagues
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Afghanistan: media worker detained for broadcasting
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Nepal: female media worker manhandled
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Afghanistan: WHRD commits suicide after imprisonment, torture
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Thailand: Cambodian rights defender assaulted
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China: pro-democracy defender detained for 15 days
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Thailand: five Cambodian defenders and two relatives arrested
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Kazakhstan: two defenders' appeal against incarceration rejected
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Vietnam: social media activist held for days without the family being informed
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China: human rights lawyer's appeal denied (Update)
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Kyrgyzstan: environmental defenders appeal against detention extension rejected (Update)
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Thailand: another pro-democracy defender convicted on royal defamation charges
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Thailand: Vietnamese minority rights defender threatened by officials (Update)
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Kazakhstan: jailed media worker has pretrial detention extended (Update)
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Sri Lanka: peaceful protest dismantled by the police
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Kazakhstan: WHRD appeal against jail term rejected (Update)
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China: Tibetan WHRD arrested for online criticism of authorities
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Pakistan: female media worker briefly detained, intimidated for reporting protest
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Vietnam: two ethnic minority defenders fined
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Nepal: 22 arrested for staging a protest
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Kyrgyzstan: blogger sentence changed from parole-like regime to actual imprisonment (Update)
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China: Hong Kongese WHRD and lawyer denied bail (Update)
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China: Hong Kongese WHRD and lawyer denied bail (Update)
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Pakistan: women-led protest met with violence
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Cambodia: verdict against two land rights defenders upheld (Update)
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Philippines: two community-based defenders face false murder charges
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Pakistan: twenty demonstrators arrested
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Sri Lanka: Tamil rights defender receives intimidating phone call
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Kazakhstan: jailed media worker has pretrial detention extended (Update)
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Vietnam: spouse of detained HRD faces tight surveillance
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Kazakhstan: WHRD sentenced for allegedly calling for a rally
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Philippines: two young environmental WHRDs face further harassment (Update)
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Vietnam: FoRB activist sentenced to 8-year prison term (Update)
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Myanmar: two media workers detained
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Indonesia: three farmers detained for opposing eviction
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China: three Hong Kong pro-democracy defenders arrested
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Afghanistan: NGO staff has phone seized by the Taliban
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China: lawyers harassed, forced to attend a weekend court hearing
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China: lawyers harassed, forced to attend a weekend court hearing
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Indonesia: student leader intimidated for criticising the president
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Sri Lanka: Tamil media worker questioned
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Philippines: WHRD detained upon arrival in the country, deported
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Thailand: pro-democracy defender gets suspended sentence for royal defamation
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Kyrgyzstan: defender arrested for protesting the country's flag change
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Vietnam: residents remain uncompensated as forceful eviction continues
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Thailand: Vietnamese minority rights defender, his daughter arrested
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Nepal: media worker assaulted while reporting
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Vietnam: social media activist sentenced after arrest (Update)
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Vietnam: WHRD's house surrounded, filled with dirt
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Kazakhstan: two pro-democracy defenders face politically-motivated charges
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Nepal: media worker assaulted while reporting on false refugee scam
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Cambodia: more villagers interrogated on government agency's lawsuit
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Indonesia: EHRD detained for criticising waste contamination
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Pakistan: prominent Pashtun rights defender arrested once again
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Kazakhstan: relatives of ethnic Uyghurs detained in China halted in their rally
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Vietnam: spouse of detained HRD continuously harassed
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Afghanistan: media worker covering Shia minority issues arrested
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Sri Lanka: women-led protest dispersed with water cannons
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Vietnam: Khmer Krom monk and minority rights defender expelled from Buddhist pagoda
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Sri Lanka: ethnic Tamil commemorating 1984 massacre disrupted by police
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Indonesia: Papuan students' rally violently disrupted by local organisations
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Indonesia: pro-Papua rally immediately dispersed by police and military
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Bangladesh: three media workers assaulted
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Kazakhstan: pro-democracy defender handed down 7-year jail term (Update)
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Mongolia: media editor arrested, media outlet access blocked
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Vietnam: detained environmental lawyer repeatedly harassed by prison management (Update)
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Pakistan: WHRD house raided, relative arrested
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Indonesia: land defenders taken by the police, arrested
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Sri Lanka: trade unions protest forcefully disbanded
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China: pro-democracy defender warned for solo protest in Hong Kong, another arrested
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Afghanistan: another WHRD under custody of the Taliban
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Sri Lanka: Tamil HRDs detained for commemorating civil war deaths
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Indonesia: indigenous group met with police violence
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Indonesia: media worker attacked by unknown individual
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Cambodia: three villagers questioned for protesting (Update)
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China: human rights lawyer conviction upheld amidst serious irregularities (Update)
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Bangladesh: SOGI rights defender speech cancelled on security concerns
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Sri Lanka: five arrested for peaceful protest
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Sri Lanka: Tamil community leaders prevented from staging commemorating events
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Cambodia: labour rights defenders denied to submit a petition
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Cambodia: social media activist sentenced for Facebook post
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Thailand: pro-democracy WHRD sentenced for calling to join a protest
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China: pro-democracy defender placed under strict surveillance upon returning home
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Bangladesh: media worker attacked while reporting political clash
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India: environmental group violently raided, its leaders arrested
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Vietnam: pro-democracy defender assaulted in jail, denied family visits (Update)
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Nepal: media worker threatened for sharing online news
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Indonesia: 20 indigenous rights defenders arrested while preparing a protest
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China: dissident journalist dies hours after police raid
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Kyrgyzstan: detained blogger formally indicted (Update)
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Afghanistan: arrest of protesting women continues
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Bangladesh: labour rights defender gone missing, arrested on false charges
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Philippines: investigative outlet website targeted by cyber attack
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Thailand: three prominent pro-democracy figures sentenced to jail over 2021 protest
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Pakistan: minority rights leader arrested again
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India: students charged for solidarity demonstration
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Indonesia: two prominent defenders formally indicted by the prosecutor (Update)
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Vietnam: detained EHRD harassed by prison guards (Update)
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Kazakhstan: five detained defenders appeal denied
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Kazakhstan: WHRD banned from political and social activities for five years
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Kyrgyzstan: independent media website outlet blocked over allegation of disseminating false information
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Bangladesh: labour leader arrested during a protest
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Bangladesh: two student journalists attacked on university campus
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Indonesia: media workers intimidated when requesting interview
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Vietnam: detained pro-democracy defender transferred to faraway prison (Update)
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Sri Lanka: 21 students arrested, met with violence
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Sri Lanka: media workers prevented from reporting on land seizure
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Singapore: human rights lawyer receives 21-day jail sentence
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Kazakhstan: WHRD arrested on false accusation
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Cambodia: at least ten workers sacked for protesting irregular wage
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Kazakhstan: labour leader sentenced to 15-day detention
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Indonesia: student leader and family intimidated for criticising the Constitutional Court
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Thailand: pro-democracy youth given suspended sentenced for a 2020 speech
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Thailand: pro-democracy defender apprehended at home, arrested
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Vietnam: student and former political prisoner intimidated
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India: 46 students detained ahead of planning hunger strike
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Sri Lanka: six Tamil students arrested for staging a protest
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India: 21 farmers arrested over land dispute
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China: prominent rights lawyer incommunicado, believed detained
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Cambodia: environmental youth harassed by the police
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Vietnam: four minority religious defenders temporarily detained
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Vietnam: detained social media activist sentenced (Update)
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Vietnam: dozens community members violently arrested (Update)
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India: media worker faces criminal charges
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Thailand: pro-democracy defender sentenced for defamation over Facebook post
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Thailand: pro-democracy WHRD handed down 2-year and eight months prison term
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Afghanistan: young WHRD arrested and tortured by the Taliban, takes her own life after being released
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China: poet and minority rights defender severely beaten
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Bangladesh: new round of violence affect media workers
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Indonesia: palm oil farmers unionists assaulted and detained
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Sri Lanka: two media workers questioned, harassed following protest coverage
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Bangladesh: media workers attacked for covering political events
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Cambodia: villagers targeted with criminal charges
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China: pro-democracy defender sentenced to 4.5 years (Update)
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Sri Lanka: protesting medical students fired with tear gas and water cannons
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China: Tibetan WHRD subjected to administrative detention
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China: WHRD and lawyer sentenced to 6.5 years (Update)
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Sri Lanka: civil servant protest met with teargas, water cannons
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Vietnam: community monitored, harassed for protesting
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India: more students arrested for joining demonstration
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China: two Tibetan WHRDs detained
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Nepal: media worker threatened after disclosing mismanagement of public properties
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Myanmar: pro-democracy teacher given life sentence
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Indonesia: 12 students arrested ahead of planned protest
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Cambodia: conviction of nine unionists and WHRDs upheld (Update)
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India: 11 students accused of illegal gathering
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Philippines: young environmental WHRDs face perjury charges (Update)
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China: Hong Kong student handed down 4-year sentence
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Myanmar: student leader handed down additional sentence (Update)
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Sri Lanka: another student protest met with tear gas
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China: Tibetan defender beaten, detained
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India: Dalit student assaulted by university proctor
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Thailand: pro-democracy HRDs sentenced to prison for insulting the court
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China: Hong Kong pro-democracy defender arrested amid call to boycott election
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India: villagers, including women, beaten by police for opposing mining project, two escorted
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Thailand: pro-democracy defenders and media workers attacked by ultra-royalists
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Afghanistan: two educators and WHRDs arrested
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Afghanistan: youth HRD succumbed to torture
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India: Dalit HRD brutally attacked following intimidation
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India: students detained over pro-Palestine rally
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China: pro-democracy student deported to mainland after serving sedition charges (Update)
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India: media workers obstructed by army personnel
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India: prominent author to be prosecuted over a 2010 speech
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Thailand: student leader received multiple charges over protest caravan
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Thailand: pro-democracy WHRD sentenced for royal defamation
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Malaysia: former student leader fined over 2019 protest
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India: four students booked for taking part in demonstration
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Sri Lanka: family members of the disappeared barred from protesting
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Sri Lanka: Tamil cattle farmers met with brutal police force
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Afghanistan: WHRD detained by the Taliban for 15 days
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Indonesia: land dispute protest met with violence, 1 shot dead, 2 injured, at least 20 arrested
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Sri Lanka: Tamil cattle farmers compelled to cease protesting due to court injunction
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Thailand: EHRDs threatened by the police for protesting
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Indonesia: Greenpeace protest dispersed by the police
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Sri Lanka: Tamil rights defender threatened with death
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India: prominent HRD had his house ransacked
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Vietnam: social media activist banned from leaving the country
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Vietnam: pro-democracy poetess questioned by the police, framed as supporting terrorism
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Thailand: indigenous rights defender's sentence upheld by appeal court (Update)
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India: media workers faced extensive raids, two arrested
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Indonesia: media workers obstructed by the police from reporting
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Sri Lanka: lawyers intimidated for striking in support of resigned judge
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Sri Lanka: four media workers reported by a minister over new report
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Sri Lanka: defenders blocked from entering Colombo
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India: defenders and NGOs staff target of simultaneous raid
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Cambodia: three EHRDs blocked from traveling to receive awards
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Nepal: media workers threatened over critical reporting
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Thailand: pro-democracy lawyer denied bail (Update)
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Vietnam: social media activist sentenced to 6 years (Update)
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Cambodia: four labour rights defenders had their sentence upheld in appeal
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Kazakhstan: minority movement denied registration
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Philippines: long-term labour rights defender killed
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Philippines: two youth go missing after harassment
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Thailand: pro-democracy demonstrator handed down 3-year jail term (Update)
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Vietnam: environmental rights defender sentenced to three years (Update)
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Vietnam: FoRB activist handed down 8-year imprisonment
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Indonesia: peaceful protest forcefully dispersed
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Sri Lanka: Tamil HRD interrogated for opposing land-grabbing
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Afghanistan: women's rights defender and her son arrested
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Vietnam: human rights lawyer and family barred from leaving the country
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Vietnam: detained blogger experiences furher prison harassment (Update)
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Indonesia: 19 indigenous rights defenders summoned for protesting geothermal project
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China: artist put under travel ban
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Thailand: pro-democracy lawyer sentenced to 4 years
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Vietnam: blogger denied appeal against 8-year sentence (Update)
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Myanmar: ten pro-democracy defenders handed down additional prison term
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Indonesia: media worker attacked for reporting rape allegations against local regent
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Indonesia: social media activist summoned for objecting relocation
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Myanmar: youth dies in custody (Update)
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Bangladesh: student journalist threatened, assaulted
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Bangladesh: academic harassed by university over social media posts
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Thailand: two WHRDs sentenced to 1-year prison term
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Philippines: new case of abduction involving three indigenous peoples' rights defenders
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China: HRDs' closed-door trial started after 2 years in detention (Update)
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Kazakhstan: three pro-democracy defenders detained on unclear charges
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