More South Sudan Military Officials Resign
A brigadier general and a colonel have resigned from the South Sundanese armed forces. Both have accused President Salva Kiir’s government of corruption and protecting soldiers from his ethnic group. Two top military officials overseeing South Sudan’s military courts have resigned. Both are claiming that high-level interference made it impossible to discipline soldiers accused of […]
American Think Tank Roosevelt House organizes discussion panel on Western Sahara
The American Think Tank Roosevelt House organized in New York, a discussion panel on Western Sahara, the last colony in African to break the silence around the Human rights violations imposed by Morocco in the occupied territories. The round table gathered representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and American associations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), […]
Social Media Becomes Nightmare For Mugabe
In a WhatsApp video that went viral in September, a middle-aged Zimbabwean man addresses President Robert Mugabe, telling him that 90 percent of the people in the country are unemployed and do not contribute to the economy because Mugabe cannot provide jobs. “You are assaulting children for expressing their heartfelt disappointment because of your misrule. […]
No Amnesty in ‘Terror’ Cases – Swaziland
Swaziland refused to withdraw all charges against people brought under the Suppression of Terrorism Act (STA), when it appeared before a United Nations review of human rights in the kingdom. The STA has been criticised across the world because it is used to arrest and jail people, including trade unionists, who are legitimately calling for […]
Egypt Authorities Should End ‘Non-Judicial Restrictions’ On Citizens’ Travel – HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has documented at least 32 cases in which “airport security officers confiscated the passport of political activists and workers in nongovernmental groups.” “The majority have not been able to get their passports back,” HRW said in a statement published on its website Sunday, criticizing the ” restrictive and intimidating […]
Italian Spy Company Accused of Rights Abuse In Ethiopia
The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its technology by the Ethiopian government against dissidents, Human Rights Watch said today. A comprehensive review of internal company emails leaked in July 2015 reveals that the company continued to train Ethiopian intelligence agents to hack into computers […]
Ethopian journalists who have been in jail for than a year freed ahead of Obama`s visit
Five bloggers and journalists held in Ethiopia for more than a year have been freed after the charges were dropped, their lawyer said Thursday, weeks before US President Barack Obama is due to visit the country. In a separate case, journalist Reeyot Alemu, jailed in June 2011 after being found guilty of plotting a terrorist […]
Pictures show the massacre of 770 Iraq soildiers by ISIS: WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
Gruesome: Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers were rounded up by ISIS militants in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in June 2014 (pictured), before they were shot dead in bloody mass executions The bloody aftermath of Islamic State’s mass execution of 770 Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit last year was so vast, it could be seen from space.It […]
Human Rights Watch: Find missing anti-Mugabe activist Dzamara
Human Rights Watch has urged Zimbabwe’s authorities to release information on the whereabouts of a prominent pro-democracy activist it fears has been “forcibly disappeared”. Itai Dzamara has not been seen since he was abducted by five men in the capital, Harare, on 9 March. Officials have denied any state agents were involved in his abduction. […]
