Justice

In Kenya, the well-known environmental activist Joannah Stutchbury (67) was shot dead by four weapons on Thursday night outside her home. She got out of the car to clear branches that were blocking the way to her house. The perpetrators are still unknown on this day. About 40 NGOs and environmental associations have issued a joint statement and even President Kenyatta has responded.…

Four Guinean opponents - key leaders of Cellou Dalein Diallo's UFDG who have been imprisoned for several months - will benefit from this supervised provisional release this Saturday, July 17th. A freedom that allows them to seek treatment, according to a statement from Guinea's prison administration read in the Guinean state media.…

This is a mistake that could cost Israeli businessman Dan Gertler dearly. In an arbitration proceeding, the latter used a document indicating that he handed over nearly $ 380 million in bribes to Congolese officials. with our special correspondent in Kinshasa, Sonia RolleyThis is in fact what the investigators from the British…

On July 5, Malaysian justice issued an international arrest warrant against former deputy Karim Keïta, who fled to the Ivory Coast when his father, former president IBK, was fired. Justice wants to hear it in connection with the disappearance of the Malian journalist Birama Touré, who has not given any sign of life since January 2016.…

Jacob Zuma has been imprisoned since last Wednesday, July 7. The 79-year-old former South African president is expected to serve 15 months in prison for contempt for justice. Jacob Zuma has stubbornly refused to answer questions from a commission of inquiry into corruption. The Constitutional Court is reviewing its sentence on Monday, July 12, when the trial triggered violence in the country and forced the army to deploy. It is a technical litigation debate that is still going on between the lawyer of the former…

I think he was the last critical journalist through his leaders where he criticized power, corruption, the management of the health crisis ... Samir Bouaziz, RSF Advocacy Officer for North Africa .

After a two-week stay in Kinshasa, Annie Chebeya left the capital of Congo on Friday, July 9th. The widow of the former executive director of the Voice of the Voiceless for Human Rights, murdered on June 1, 2010, had returned to the country after eleven years in exile in Canada. During her stay in Kinshaha, Annie Chebeya…

The lawyers for the opponent Reckya Madougou submitted to the prosecutor at the court for repression of economic crimes and terrorism, on Friday, July 9, a request for the provisional release of their client. Reckya Madougou, a former candidate for the Democratic Party, was unable to run in the April presidential election due to…

Following the release in early May of 40 people detained since the October 2020 demonstrations around Guinea's presidential election, Amnesty International recalls that 57 detainees, arrested under the same circumstances, are still behind bars. NGOs demand respect for their rights and for criminal proceedings. "Despite these…

Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni was sentenced Friday night to five years in prison by a court in Casablanca. He was charged in a case of indecent assault with force and forced delivery, accusations that he has always denied. Its support committee condemns a political trial aimed at comments from the journalist, who is critical of the regime. In protest, he went on a hunger strike that has now…