- Article written by Dominika Spyratou from Common Ground. During the first lockdown, from 23 March - 4 May 2020, restrictions on assembly prevented people in Greece from gathering in…
- Original content by ECF in collaboration with Novact. Police in Spain have reacted with violence and arrests in recent protests against police aggression (in Linares, Jaen), and the imprisonment of Pablo Hasel (in Spain’s main…
- Analysis by CIVICUS Monitor's Aarti Narsee, published by Carnegie Europe on 27 January 2021, accessible here The year 2020 tested democracy and civic freedoms in many ways. After the…
Extract from article by Polish News, 29 January 2021, accessible here [...] A representative of the National Women’s Strike was detained during Thursday’s protest against the tightening of abortion law.…
Article originally published on 24th September 2020 by Liberties and Greenpeace European Unit. Restrictions on the right to protest, free speech, access to information and freedom of association. This is…
Analysis for Civic Space Watch by Zahari Iankov, lawyer, Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law Context – Political Actions Since the end of the initial state of emergency in relation to COVID-19 and the easing of…
Article originally published in Spanish in elDiario.es. Since last Friday the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced the selective closure of 37 areas in the region…
By Osservatorio Repressione Download the report here. Since the beginning of the COVID - 19 pandemic, in Italy, 226,699 people were infected, 65,129 are currently positive and, above all,…
On 22 January 2020, Spain was questioned by the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the OHCHR. On 21 January, the European Civic Forum took part in a side event organised…
(The Brussels Times - 29 November 2019) On Thursday night, 22 members of of the group Extinction Rebellion have been arrested preventively while they were preparing to protest against Black…