Africa
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Ongoing Efforts to Bring Omoyele Sowore Home
Tags Share Omoyele Sowore is a journalist and social activist who has been trapped in his native Nigeria in a bizarre diplomatic quarantine—confined to house arrest, facing bogus charges with little prospect of returning to his wife and children in New Jersey anytime soon. RFK Human Rights has been involved in a campaign for Sowore’s…
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Journalist Mohamed Abuuja Freed After Months in Arbitrary Detention
Tags Share MOGADISHU, Somalia/ Washington D.C, USA, 05 August, 2020 – After long struggle for justice, Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Somali Media Association (SOMA) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcome today’s verdict by the Somali Military Court’s to release Radio Hiigsi editor, Mohamed Abduwahab Nuur (Abuuja) from the nearly five-months’-long arbitrary detention. The release…
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Joint UN Petition Calls for Journalist Mohamed Abdiwahab Nuur’s Release
Tags Share Mogadishu, Somalia and Washington, DC — On July 27, 2020, the Somali Journalists Syndicate, the Somali Media Association, lawyer Daahir Ali and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights jointly submitted a petition to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of detained journalist, Mohamed Abdiwahab Nuur. Mr. Nuur, a Somali human…
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COVID-19 Must Not Be Used as a Cover for Human Rights Abuses
Tags Share On May 14, 2020, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights together with Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) and Sexual Minorities Uganda petitioned the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to press Uganda to release 19 LGBTI individuals who were arrested March 29, together with four others after the Uganda Police Force raided…
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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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