A Kenyan parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday accused British soldiers of decades of sexual misconduct, violence, human rights violations, and environmental harm during their tenure in the country. These accusations emerged following a two-year inquiry by the parliamentary Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations (DIFRC), which culminated in a 94-page report detailing alleged assaults, maimings, [...]
Amnesty International called on Tuesday for the immediate and unconditional release of two former members of parliament in the southern African nation of Eswatini, Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza. The statement comes in response to news of a conditional royal pardon granted earlier this month to MP Dube, resulting in his supervised release. “Mthandeni Dube’s [...]
The United Nations’ top human rights body on Friday adopted a resolution ordering an urgent and independent fact-finding mission into allegations of human rights violations and other atrocities in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly committed large-scale atrocities, including ethnically motivated killings, torture, summary executions, and [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday voiced support for the forthcoming “Wakati Wetu Festival,” which will host artists, musicians, policymakers and actvists in Kenya to discuss “historical injustices, the ongoing impact of the slave trade and colonialism, and to imagine what reparatory justice involves.” The festival, whose inaugural debut will take place October 22-23, is the first [...]
International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday criticized the “baseless charges” brought against two human rights defenders arrested by El Salvador police in May, and called for their immediate release. José Ángel Pérez, 55, and 29-year-old Alejandro Antonio Henríquez were arrested while peacefully protesting the mass eviction of dozens of families from El [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday called on Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen to immediately restore access to independent news platform Barran Press, following reports of a nationwide access ban on the outlet. Barran Press, which is based in the government-controlled city of Marib, east of Yemen’s capital Sanaa, first reported the [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday called on Indonesian authorities to investigate recent incidents of assault, harassment, and intimidation against journalists covering nationwide protests in the archipelagic state and hold those responsible to account. In the wake of demonstrations that erupted on August 25 over low wages, new tax increases, and pay raises [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called upon the Sri Lankan authorities to put an immediate end to what it called the government’s harassment of photojournalist Kanapathipillai Kumanan, after a police notice obtained by the organization revealed that Kumanan had been summoned by the counter-terrorism police for questioning. The summons comes in the [...]
Former Bangladeshi Minister for Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak was detained at an airport in the country’s capital Dhaka while attempting to flee to New Delhi, local media outlets reported Tuesday. According to the Dhaka Tribune, Palak, who served as the IT Minister in the recently ousted Awami League government, was detained [...]
At least 25 people were reportedly killed and dozens wounded in an attack by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Saturday on the city of El-Fasher in western Darfur, local pro-democracy activists El-Fasher Resistance Committees shared on Facebook. In their post, the Resistance Committees accused the militia of “indiscriminately shelling the city’s neighborhoods with heavy artillery.” [...]
