Africa
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Déclaration de kerry kennedy sur la détention illégale de kezimana
Tags Share [New York/Washington D.C., 20 mai 2020] Avant les élections générales du 20 mai au Burundi, les autorités burundaises et les membres du parti au pouvoir ont utilisé des tactiques de peur et de violence pour étouffer et réprimer l’opposition politique. Plus récemment, les autorités ont arrêté l’ancienne défenseuse des droits humains et candidate…
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Kerry Kennedy on the Unlawful Detention of Cathy Kezimana
Tags Share [New York/Washington D.C., 20 May 2020] Leading up to today’s general elections in Burundi, national authorities and members of the ruling party have employed tactics of fear and violence to stifle and repress its political opposition. Most recently arresting former human rights defender and current political candidate Cathy Kezimana in retaliation for a…
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UN Petition: LGBTQ+ People Arbitrarily Detained in Uganda
Tags Share On March 29, 2020, the government of Uganda raided an LGBTQ+ shelter under the guise of taking COVID-19 prevention measures and arbitrarily arrested 23 people because of their gender identity and sexual orientation. Nineteen of these individuals were denied access to their lawyers for weeks and still remain unlawfully detained at Kitalya Prison…
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Call for Release of Sahrawi Activist Mohamed Al-Bambary
Tags Share (May 15, 2020, Washington D.C.) — Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Freedom Now urge the Government of Morocco to immediately release Mohamed Al-Bambary and all political prisoners in light of the growing threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A journalist and Sahrawi activist, Mr. Al-Bambary had reported on human rights abuses committed…
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Human Rights Orgs Petition UN on Behalf of LGBTQ+ People Arbitrarily Detained in Uganda
The Ugandan government has unlawfully detained 19 LGBTQ+ people under the guise of its COVID-19 response.
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Urgent Measures Must Be Taken by MENA Governments to Protect Prison Population
Tags Share In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic outbreak—qualified as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO)—we, the undersigned organizations, express grave concern over the situation of detainees and prisoners across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). While certain states in the region have taken some positive…
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Escalating Attacks on Malawian Civil Society Leaders
Tags Share Ahead of Malawi’s upcoming general election rerun on May 19, government authorities have escalated their attacks on civic space, homing in on human rights defenders Gift Trapence, Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, and Timothy Mtambo—leaders of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC)—for organizing national protests to advocate for electoral justice and free elections. “We are…
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Omoyele Sowore Faces Life in Prison for Organizing Peaceful Protests
The journalist and human rights defender has spent 143 days in arbitrary detention in Nigeria.
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Nigeria Aims to Silence Dissent With Charges Against Prominent Journalist
Tags Share After months in prison and a prolonged legal fight, prominent Nigerian journalist and client of RFK Human Rights, Omoyele Sowore, is now facing charges of treason. Sowore had been arbitrarily arrested and detained after organizing an event, Revolution Now, to protest corruption and unfair elections. His wife, Opeyemi Sowore told VOA News that…
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Protecting Civic Space: The Case of Omoyele Sowore
Tags Share New Jersey journalist and human rights activist Omoyele “Yele” Sowore was violently detained in his native Nigeria in August 2019 after his online publication, Sahara Reporters, called for a nationwide protest of the country’s president. He’s been unlawfully imprisoned for months on trumped up charges of cyberstalking and treason, and potentially faces life…
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Covid Exploited to Target LGBTQ+ Ugandans
Shades of “Kill the Gays” legislation return in arbitrary detention of 19 LGBTTI individuals.
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