Africa
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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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Egypt’s Crackdown on Freedom of Speech Takes Dangerous Turn
Tags Share The crackdown on freedom of speech and expression continues in Egypt. This last weekend an Egyptian-German academic was denied entry and a social and political cartoonist was arrested and detained for 24 hours. Upon arrival to the Cairo Airport on January 29, Egyptian-German academic Dr. Atef Botros was detained by airport authorities and…
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Belady Founders Released From Detention
Aya Hijazi and Mohamed Hassanein aided Cairo’s street children, until they were arbitrarily detained for three years.
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Human Rights Lawyer Brutally Detained
After being charged with manufactured crimes by the Egyptian State, Malek Adly spent 116 days in solitary confinement.
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Egyptian Protester Jailed, Tortured
A protest shirt is all it took for Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Hussein to be arbitrarily detained for more than two years.
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