Schlagwort: human rights

Hundreds of people in Côte d’Ivoire are languishing in dire conditions in prison after being arrested during violence and election-related protests last year, including many who are in pre-trial detention with limited access to lawyers, Amnesty International said today.

Following the adoption of a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council, renewing in full the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (“the Commission”), Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa, Deprose Muchena said:

Burundian authorities must quash human rights activist Germain Rukuki’s conviction on spurious charges and immediately and unconditionally release him from prison, where he is being detained simply for his work defending human rights, said Amnesty International today as a new appeal hearing on his case gets underway.