UN ‘deeply concerned’ by Russia’s ‘LGBTQ propaganda’ law
Geneva – The United Nations said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” by Russian lawmakers voting to toughen up... Read more
28 Oct, 2022
Same-sex marriage now legal across Mexico
Mexico City – Same-sex marriage has become legal throughout Mexico after the state of Tamaulipas became the last in the... Read more
27 Oct, 2022
Egypt orders release of jailed activist Zyad el-Elaimy
Cairo – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011... Read more
25 Oct, 2022
Leading Zimbabwe lawyer arrested in court
Harare – A leading Zimbabwe human rights lawyer who has defended high-profile cases, was arrested in court on Friday... Read more
22 Oct, 2022
DRC army backed notorious Hutu rebel group: HRW
Kinshasa – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army backed a notorious Rwandan Hutu rebel group in recent clashes with... Read more
19 Oct, 2022
Egypt military court cuts sentence of security expert
Cairo – An Egyptian military court on Monday reduced the sentence of security expert Ismail Alexandrani, whose incarceration since... Read more
18 Oct, 2022
Kenya disbands ‘killer’ police unit
Nairobi – Kenya’s new president, William Ruto, said he had dissolved a police unit accused of extrajudicial killings, in a... Read more
18 Oct, 2022
Equatorial Guinea detains human rights campaigner: lawyer, wife
Malabo – Equatorial Guinea has held a human rights campaigner in detention for 18 days after he assisted opposition... Read more
15 Oct, 2022
Moroccan dissident Monjib on new hunger strike over travel ban
Rabat – Moroccan historian and rights activist Maati Monjib said on Wednesday he was again going on hunger strike... Read more
13 Oct, 2022
UN calls detention of Moroccan journalist ‘arbitrary’
Rabat – United Nations rights experts have concluded that Morocco’s detention of opposition journalist Soulaimane Raissouni is “arbitrary”, and... Read more
12 Oct, 2022
