Africa
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Nigerian Journalist Deemed “Terrorist”
Omoyele Sowore covered human rights abuses. Now he’s the victim of them at the hands of the Nigerian State.
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Egypt Sends Threat to All Journalists
Mahmoud Hussein has been detained in subhuman conditions since 2016 simply for working for a media outlet critical of Egypt.
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Violent Crackdown on Protests in Zimbabwe
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses its deep concern at the recent crackdown on protests in Zimbabwe. We urgently join the calls by Zimbabwean civil society for the authorities to refrain from further violence, immediately release and cease prosecutions of those who have been arbitrarily detained, and commit to maintaining open access to…
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Punitive Pretrial Detention in Egypt
Tags Share Ever since President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took power in June 2013, Egyptian authorities have increasingly sought to punish dissidents who dare to criticize the government and publish views that differ from the regime’s chosen narrative. In 2018, well over 100 people were arrested for exercising their right to freedom of expression, facing unfounded…
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Letter: Ethiopia Must Protect Freedom of Association
Tags Share To: Prime Minister-, Dr. Abiy Ahmed Cc: Tagesse Chafo, Speaker of the House of Peoples’ Representative 29 November 2018 Your Excellency, The undersigned international, regional and national human rights and development organisations write to urge your government to ensure that the draft Charities and Societies (CSO) Proclamation complies with regional and international human…
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UN: Western Sahara Media Worker was Arbitrarily Detained
Tags Share The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (“Working Group”) has determined that Mohamed al-Bambary, a Sahrawi media activist serving six years in prison as a result of his journalism, is being arbitrarily detained in Morocco. Freedom Now and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announce today that on June 29, 2018, the Working…
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Government Shuts Down LGBTQ+ Event in Uganda
Tags Share We are deeply troubled to learn that the Ugandan government ordered Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) to shut down their event today commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). This unjustified order, issued by the Ugandan Minister of State for Ethics and Integrity, arbitrarily disrupts SMUG’s celebration of a day dedicated…
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Deteriorating Civic Space in Tanzania
Civil society calls on the Tanzanian Government to address the rapidly deteriorating environment for media, human rights defenders, and opposition party members.
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Solitary Confinement in Egypt’s Prisons
A new report from Amnesty International features testimony from RFK Human Rights’ clients.
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Numerous Errors in State Department’s Western Sahara Human Rights Report
Tags Share May 3, 2018 The Honorable Michael PompeoSecretary of StateU.S. Department of State2201 C Street, NWWashington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Pompeo, We are writing to bring to your attention several extremely problematic sections of the recently released Western Sahara 2017 Human Rights Report. As you know, the State Department’s annual human rights reports are…
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Protect Egyptian Human Rights Defenders, Both Home and Abroad
Tags Share The undersigned civil society organisations express their outrage at the latest death threats targeting the Director of Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Bahey el-Din Hassan, as a result of his human rights work on Egypt in Europe and the US. On 21 March 2018, in reaction to a memo sent by…
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Dispatch from 6th International Conference on Peoples’ Right to Resistance
Tags Share Recently, I traveled to Algiers, Algeria to attend the 6th International Conference on the Peoples’ Right to Resistance: The Case of the Sahrawi People. The conference was organized by the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (CNASPS) and the Embassy of the Sahrawi Arabic Democratic Republic in Algeria, and included…
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