Category: Repressively

Restrictions on free speech, unfair elections and populist hunger for power – it is by no means just autocrats who have been tightening the screw of repression. Governments in democracies have also increasingly been trying to govern with a hard hand. And social division is deeper than it has been Gütersloh (Germany) 22 March 2018.  The quality of democracy, market...

The Council imposed restrictive measures on eleven individuals responsible for the military coup staged in Myanmar/Burma on 1 February 2021, and the subsequent military and police repression against peaceful demonstrators. The EU approves sanctions on Human Rights violations The Council today imposed restrictive measures on eleven individuals responsible for the military coup staged in Myanmar/Burma on 1 February 2021, and...

English Analysis on Nicaragua about Health, Protection and Human Rights and Epidemic; published on 15 Feb 2021 by Amnesty Nicaragua: Government tactics to silence criticism and social demands deepen human rights crisis Since the current human rights crisis erupted in Nicaragua in 2018, the government has clamped down on all forms of dissent or criticism. The authorities have pursued a...

The Council imposed restrictive measures against 27 additional individuals, including high-level Belarusian officials, responsible for the ongoing repression and intimidation, as well as against 2 individuals and 7 entities who benefit from their association with and support the Lukashenka regime. In response to the brutality of the Belarusian authorities and in support of the democratic rights of the Belarusian people,...