Since the start of April, the UN has documented one assassination, one abduction, three cases of arbitrary arrest and detention, the sentencing of four journalists to death in violation of international human rights law, and the jailing of six others.
A US District Judge has blocked federal agents in Portland from dispersing, arresting, threatening to arrest, or targeting force against journalists or legal observers at protests.
In August 2018, it was estimated that up to 100 police officers from the PSNI and Durham Constabulary raided two journalists’ homes and offices, seizing documents and computers, which the men are fighting to have returned.
With presidential elections less than three months away, Belarusian authorities have intensified their crackdown on independent activists and journalists, says Human Rights Watch.
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has put an end to the mass surveillance of global internet traffic by the country's foreign intelligence service.