Africa
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Journalist Zelalem Workagegnehu Found Guilty Under Anti-Terror Law
Tags Share The Federal High Court Lideta 19 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, found blogger, journalist, and activist Zelalem Workagegnehu guilty under Article 7(1) of Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation on April 15, 2016. Though Zelalem denied his affiliations with any political party and believed in non-violent change, his charges and conviction under Ethiopia’s anti-terrorism laws are consistent
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Kerry Kennedy Testifies Before Lantos Commission on Western Sahara
In her testimony, Kerry Kennedy called out the international community, including the United States government, for consistently failing to respond to the human rights abuses in Western Sahara.
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UN Must Press Morocco on Its Abuses in Western Sahara
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, in partnership with several other non-governmental organizations and academics, has submitted an alternative report including a list of questions and recommendations for the United Nations Human Rights Committee to consider regarding Western Sahara as it reviews the Kingdom of Morocco’s human rights record. The submission presented by Robert
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RFK Human Rights Welcomes Release of Mahmoud Hussein
Mahmoud was released on bail after being arbitrarily arrested, tortured, and unlawfully detained for 789 days.
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Historic Verdict in Jean-Pierre Bemba Trial
This is the first case to heavily focus on crimes of sexual violence as a weapon of war and a tool to terrorize a civilian population.
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Egyptian Government Continues Unjust Crackdown on Civil Society
Tags Share (March 22, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns the Egyptian government’s escalating attempts to silence the country’s civil society, as the government moves to reopen Case No. 173/2011, popularly known as the “foreign funding case.” The first phase of the case resulted in 43 staff of international non-governmental organizations
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Rwanda Restricting Access to African Human Rights Court
Tags Share March 17, 2016 – Today Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joined a group of 40 leading African and international human rights organizations in a joint statement criticizing the government of the Republic of Rwanda for withdrawing individual access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights – the highest human rights tribunal
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New Report Highlights Grave Abuses Against Sahrawis in Western Sahara
Failure to counter these recurring and serious abuses underscores the need for a system of independent human rights monitoring in Western Sahara.
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RFK Human Rights Responds to False Report on Moroccan Television
Tags Share (February 29, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Earlier this month, on February 19, 2016, Laayoune Television broadcast a false report that Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights had cancelled a planned trip to the region and halted all of the organization’s human rights work regarding Western Sahara. In light of these false reports, Robert F.
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Egypt Doubles Down on State-Sponsored Crackdown of Peaceful Activists
Tags Share (February 17, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) In a troubling development, more than two years after his arbitrary arrest on January 25, 2014, Egypt’s East Cairo Prosecution has referred 20 year old Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Hussein’s case to the Supreme State Security Prosecution for further investigation. “The government’s sudden decision that a different branch
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Briefing Paper: Punitive Use of Pretrial Detention in Egypt
Tags Share Since June 2013, Egyptian authorities have increasingly used pretrial detention as a punitive measure to silence activists, journalists, and peaceful political dissidents. The number of pretrial detainees in Egypt has exponentially increased and the periods of pretrial detention have exceeded international legal standards and even domestic maximums. Egypt’s legal framework violates its international
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Suspected Mass Graves Uncovered in Burundi in the Wake of Post-Election Violence
Restricting civic space in Burundi creates a domino effect, allowing renegade leaders to avoid accountability and continue violating rights essential to the maintenance of a free and democratic society.
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