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With presidential elections less than three months away, Belarusian authorities have intensified their crackdown on independent activists and journalists, says Human Rights Watch.

A wave of youth-led protests across Asia is defying escalating repression and a continent-wide crackdown on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International says inits annual report.

Volunteers arrested for rescuing refugees in Greece and a young Iranian woman rights activist sentenced to 10 years in jail are among those to receive support. 

Since Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency in 2012, new repressive laws and a battery of hostile actions have had a crippling effect on human rights activists and their work, says Amnesty International in a new report.