Egypt, Further Arrests: Executive of EIPR Detained, the NGO Patrick Zaki Worked With
As we get ready for the umpteenth weekend worrying and anxious about Patrick Zaki, who…
As we get ready for the umpteenth weekend worrying and anxious about Patrick Zaki, who…
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, urged the government of Mozambique to investigate the escalation…
“All five of my apolitical cousins that were unjustly detained as a reprisal for my…
Three hearings in 20 days, between 7 and 26 October, and nothing has changed for…
In Guinea, following the election on 18 October confirming a third mandate for President Alpha…
Not even the COVID-19 pandemic was enough to keep the promise made last year by…
Another massacre took place on Tuesday 20 October in two locations in Lagos, Alausa and…
On 22 September, the Cameroon police reacted by throwing teargas, water bombs and especially by…
The arrest of former member of parliament, Fabien Banciryanino, on 2 October is a bad…
In my last post on this website, I had written about the umpteenth announcement to…
Every year, the Nigeria’s chief of police announces he will dissolve the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.…
He has been called several times since 3 October from an unknown number and told…
On 4 June, the Ntahangwa Court of Appeals upheld the sentencing of Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine…
Abass Hamadi Diallo, born in 1986, was in southern Mauritania on 28 May near the…
A report published by Amnesty International on 29 May casts a dark shadow over the…
The community of human rights defenders in Egypt are worried about the fate of Mahienour…
In many countries in Southern Africa, the coronavirus has rapidly become a pretext to gag…
Chad has definitively abolished the death penalty that has been in force only for crimes…
From 7 March to 13 April, coinciding with the news of the spread of the…
There is little known about Mauritania, kept in the dark voluntarily because of power and…
Of all the countries in Northwest Africa, Tunisia best respects the right to freedom of…
On 1 April, the president of Somaliland, Muse Bihi Abdi, released 574 prisoners: a necessary…
For weeks, authorities in South Africa have been urging citizens to wash their hands well…
On 9 April, the Independent Broadcasting Authority for Zambia’s broadcasting regulator - that doesn’t seem…
Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, people defended their human rights by braving bullets and beatings, and conflicts…
On 24 March, an appeal court in Algiers sentenced Karim Tabbou, leader of the Democratic…
Yesterday, at about 5:00 pm, the ordeal that saw the arrest of novelist Ahdaf Soueif,…
Ahdaf Soueif, her sister Laila Soueif and her daughter Mona Seif, and Rabab al-Mahdi were…
Sentenced to four months suspended sentence and a fine equal to €50 euros. This was…
Gift Trapence and Reverend McDonald Sembereka, two activists with the Human Rights Consultive Committee (HRCC)…