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Human rights organizations and opposition parties are concerned about the wave of arrests going on in the country. They follow the deadly demonstrations during the pre-election period that left at least 2 civilians dead and wounded on the police side and the protesters. Every day, the press, social networks and human rights organizations warn of cases of people arrested.…

In its annual report published this week, the US State Department made a condemnatory assessment of the past year: arbitrary arrests, poor conditions in prisons ... But for Conakry's Minister of Information and Communications Amara Somparé, this report is not serious. .

We consider this to be a serious violation of a fundamental violation of the right to a defense first enshrined in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, as provided for in the applicable criminal procedure rules of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, and enshrined in international federations and other conventions such as Mauritania. And I am thinking in particular of the international pact on civil and political law to which Mauritania is a party. This issue is essentially…

In its annual report, the US State Department makes a devastating assessment of the past year: arbitrary arrests, poor conditions in prisons ... The US State Department confirms in this report published this week the dysfunctions that several human beings have pointed out in recent months. rights organizations. In 2020, many…

A year ago, more than 80 human rights and press organizations signed a petition calling on several African presidents to release journalists in overcrowded prisons whose prisoners are often exposed to Covid 19. The Cameroon Committee to Protect Journalists. (CPJ) restarts President Paul Biya. One year after this appeal, the…

Human Rights Watch has published a new report in which it points out that at least eight bloggers who mainly broadcast their production via the Youtube platform have been threatened, arrested or even prosecuted for a year. A poet has also been missing since February last year after being critical. The American NGO Human Rights…

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission is also investigating crimes and atrocities committed in the province of Tigray. After months of silence, she admits in a report that more than 100 people were massacred in the city of Aksum, which validated the investigations from other organizations such as Amnesty International. The late announcement of the Ethiopian report on human rights in the middle of the night is not due to chance; the time was calculated only hours later Abiy Ahmed's long speech. The prime minister…

Congo-Brazzaville has been led for almost 37 years by Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who is seeking a new presidential mandate tomorrow, Sunday 21 March. He will face six other candidates, including two former ministers, Mathias Dzon and Brice Parfait Kolélas. On the eve of this presidential election, FIDH and its Congolese partner, OCHD, say they are "deeply" concerned about the "deterioration of the democratic…

In Uganda, strong mobilization on social networks after the arrest on Tuesday of lawyer and human rights activist Nicholas Opiyo, as well as four other lawyers, all suspected of money laundering. The five men remain in police custody and many human rights defenders demand their release. with our correspondent in Kampala, Lucie…

The National Human Rights Commission was able to visit secret prisons in Chad, the existence of which was condemned a few weeks ago by a human rights organization. as reported from N'Djamena, Madjiasra NakoThe mission of the National Human Rights Commission indicates that he has visited two prisons of the National Security…