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2012-02-02, Issue 568
On 3 February 2012, the Cassation Bench of the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia will hear a petition by the Human Rights Council (HRCO), Ethiopia’s oldest human rights organisation, to admit an appeal against the freezing of its bank accounts. Amnes...
Nigeria: Abacha aide to hang
2012-01-31, Issue 568
A close aide to former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha has been sentenced to hang for killing the wife of politician Moshood Abiola in 1996. Major Hamza al-Mustapha has been in detention since 1999 over the killing. Abiola is widely believed to h...
Nigeria: South Africa postpones MEND trial
2012-01-31, Issue 568
The man accused of masterminding two deadly bombings at Nigeria's 50th independence celebrations will face trial in October after a South African court delayed his case by nine months. Nigerian national Henry Okah is facing trial in South Africa, whe...
Senegal: Opposition activist Alioune Tine freed
2012-01-31, Issue 568
Prominent Senegalese opposition activist Alioune Tine has been released after spending two days in detention. Tine is a member of the opposition June 23 Movement (M23), formed after countrywide protests last year against incumbent President Abdoulaye...
Libya: Diplomat dies after torture: rights group
2012-02-05, Issue 568
A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France for Muammar Gaddafi died from torture within a day of being detained by a militia from Zintan, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Friday. On 26 January, humanitarian group Medecins Sans Fron...
Libya: Human rights mission raises concerns
2012-02-06, Issue 568
In January 2012 the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) went to Libya on an information gathering mission and to establish contact with the new, rapidly growing civil society in the country. The mission went to Tripoli, Misrata and Bengh...
Western Sahara: Greenpeace names worst firms
2012-02-06, Issue 568
The organisation Greenpeace has chosen the firm Mercadona as one of the worst firms of 2011 due to the fact that this company has taken advantage of the resources of Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco, and in acquiring 30 million tins of sardines, M...
DRC: Massacre survivors to pursue justice at the Supreme Court of Canada
2012-02-06, Issue 568
The Canadian Association Against Impunity (CAAI), expressed its profound disappointment with last week’s decision by the Quebec Court of Appeal overturning the decision of the Quebec Superior Court in the case against Anvil Mining Limited. While ackn...
Rwanda: Canada deports Rwanda genocide suspect Leon Mugesera
2012-01-24, Issue 567
A Rwandan man has been deported from Canada to Kigali where he faces charges of helping to incite the 1994 genocide. Leon Mugesera has been fighting deportation for 16 years with a series of appeals, even after the Canadian Supreme Court upheld the o...
Kenya: ICC confirms charges against four leading Kenyans
2012-01-24, Issue 567
The International Criminal Court has confirmed charges against four of the six Kenyan suspects thought to be most culpable for the post election violence that followed a disputed presidential election in 2007. Charges against deputy prime minister Uh...
Libya: ICC denies deal for Gaddafi son to be tried in Libya
2012-01-24, Issue 567
The International Criminal Court denied Monday that it had agreed that Seif al-Islam, slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son, can be tried in Libya. 'The ICC has made no decision on this matter,' court spokesman Fadi el-Abdallah t...
Algeria: Al-Qaeda chief sentenced to death
2012-01-24, Issue 567
A court in Algeria has sentenced a fugitve leader of al-Qaeda's north African wing and three of his followers to death for attacks against the military. The sentence against Mokhtar Belmokhtar and the three others was handed down in absentia on Sunda...
Liberia: Taylor denies being a US spy and vows to sue US newspaper
2012-01-24, Issue 567
The imprisoned former Liberian president Charles Taylor has categorically denied working as a United States spy and vows to sue the Boston Globe newspaper that made the revelation. Reacting to the publication through his Jamaican-born lawyer Courtena...
Egypt: ElBaradei urges abolition of repressive laws before constitution
2012-01-25, Issue 567
Parliament should prioritize abolishing repressive legislation over creating a new constitution, said Mohamed ElBaradei, former presidential hopeful. On Twitter, he said that 'the focus should be on achieving independence for the judiciary and the me...
Liberia: Sirleaf to appear before committee to 'confess' her civil war role
2012-01-25, Issue 567
Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has opted to come clean over her role in the country’s civil war. Over the years innuendoes have circulated about her sponsoring the National Patriotic Front of Liberia of former warlord Charles Taylor, who i...
Egypt: Who’s behind political activists murders?
2012-01-25, Issue 567
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has highlighted the recent death of two activists. Political activist Mohamed Jamal, member of a coalition of committees defending the revolution, was found bleeding from a stab wound on 21 Janu...
Swaziland: Dlamini nominated for Irish human rights award
2012-01-29, Issue 567
President of the Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS), Maxwell Dlamini, has been nominated for the 2012 Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The award is presented by Front Line, an Irish-based human rights organisati...
Kenya: The impact of the ICC
2012-01-17, Issue 566
If the ICC process is to contribute to the deterrence of future political violence in Kenya, the court and its friends must explain its work and limitations better to the public, says a new report from the International Crisis Group. Furthermore, Ken...
Rwanda: Rwandan facing deportation to remain in custody
2012-01-18, Issue 566
A philosopher accused of inciting mass murder in Rwanda will remain in detention until a hearing that may put an end to his 19 years in Canada – or may keep him here for months. The order by the Immigration and Refugee Board keeping Léon Mugesera in ...
Egypt: Push for release of Mubarak-era political prisoners
2012-01-18, Issue 566
The Association for Political Prisoners has demanded that Egypt’s incoming parliament push for the release of all 46 political prisoners still languishing in jail from the days of the ousted Mubarak regime. The first session of Egypt’s first post-Mub...
Egypt: Mubarak defense claims no evidence to convict as trial continues
2012-01-18, Issue 566
The trial of Egypt’s ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak got underway again on 18 January, a day after his defense team said there was 'no evidence' linking Mubarak to orders to shoot protesters during the 18 days of protests that led to his downfall. Fari...
The Gambia: Call for release of activists jailed for distributing t-shirts
2012-01-19, Issue 566
Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of four activists arrested over the distribution of T-shirts calling for an end to dictatorship in the Gambia. One activist, Dr Amadou Scattred Janneh, the country's former Minister for Infor...
Western Sahara: Polisario holds UN responsible for human rights abuses
2012-01-19, Issue 566
Office of the Polisario National Secretariat expressed, in a communiqué issued Saturday, its strong condemnation 'of brutal repression perpetuated by the Moroccan occupation authorities against the defenseless Saharawi citizens, who are peacefully pr...
Liberia: US newspaper says Taylor worked for US intelligence
2012-01-19, Issue 566
A startling revelation made by a US newspaper indicates that former Liberian President Charles Taylor was aided by American intelligence agents to escape from a Boston prison where he was awaiting extradition back to his country. The Boston Globe new...
Libya: Human rights groups charge NATO with war crimes
2012-01-22, Issue 566
There is strong evidence that NATO carried out war crimes in its eight-month war for regime-change in Libya, according to a report released Thursday by Middle East human rights groups. The report is based upon a fact-finding mission to Libya conducte...
Kenya: Security forces abusing civilians near Somali border, rights group says
2012-01-15, Issue 565
The Kenyan security forces are beating and arbitrarily detaining citizens and Somali refugees in Kenya’s North Eastern province, which borders on Somalia, despite repeated pledges to stop such abuses, Human Rights Watch said. On 11 January 2012, in t...
Swaziland: Coca-Cola accused of supporting Swaziland dictator
2012-01-09, Issue 565
Coca-Cola has been accused of supporting the regime of Swaziland dictator King Mswati III. The Swaziland Democracy Campaign, an organisation that aims to depose Africa's last absolute monarch, has called on the multi-billion dollar drinks giant to pu...
Angola: AU considers looking at Cabinda claims
2012-01-09, Issue 565
More than five years after the Front for the Liberation of Cabinda (FLEC) filed a complaint with the African Union (AU) against the Angolan government for alleged human rights abuses, the AU says it is willing to hear the 'merits' of appointing a spe...
Morocco: Rapper Moaz Balghawat behind bars for 100 days
2012-01-10, Issue 565
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information has condemned the repeatedly adjournment of the case of the Moroccan rapper Moaz Belghawat, a member of the February 20 movement, the continuing of his imprisonment and the authorities’ arbitrary reject...
Libya: No Libyan response on Gadaffi son as deadline nears
2012-01-11, Issue 565
The International Criminal Court says Libya has not responded to a request for information about the health and status of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi before a deadline which expires on Tuesday 10 January. The former Libyan leader's son was captured in sout...
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