Rights

Burundi arrests five rights campaigners

Nairobi – Burundian intelligence agents have arrested five human rights campaigners, including four as they were about to fly... Read more

16 Feb, 2023

Kuala Lampur – Activists in Malaysia criticised on Thursday a government decision to ban three books for allegedly promoting... Read more

16 Feb, 2023

Geneva – The UN rights chief on Tuesday expressed alarm over a deepening crackdown in Tunisia, as Tunisian police... Read more

16 Feb, 2023

Cairo – Former Egyptian anti-corruption chief Hisham Geneina was released after completing a five-year prison sentence and charged under... Read more

15 Feb, 2023

Abuja – When Tolulope Akande-Sadipe decided to run for a second term to represent her constituency in Nigeria’s parliament,... Read more

15 Feb, 2023

Johannesburg – At the height of apartheid, young South African lawyer Navi Pillay made history by securing better conditions... Read more

15 Feb, 2023

Algiers – Algerian authorities have arrested the mother and sister of wanted activist Amira Bouraoui days after she left... Read more

13 Feb, 2023

Nairobi – Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said on Thursday that allegations of rights abuses by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia’s... Read more

10 Feb, 2023

Nairobi – Human Rights Watch called on Thursday for targeted sanctions against Eritrea, accusing its government of rounding up... Read more

10 Feb, 2023

Lusaka – Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has commuted 390 death sentences to life imprisonment, six weeks after he abolished... Read more

9 Feb, 2023