USA: Police failing to protect protesters from violence, as volatile elections near
Law enforcement agencies across the USA are failing to facilitate people’s fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly, and to protect protests and counter-protests from violent disruption by armed groups among others, Amnesty International said today in a new report, Losing the Peace: US Police Failures to Protect Protesters from Violence.
Madagascar: President Rajoelina must deliver on his promise to decongest prisons
Central African Republic: While many ‘people are hungry for trials’ some warlords still walk free
Despite a few investigations and trials these past few years, many perpetrators of horrendous human rights violations and abuses in the Central African Republic (CAR) have not been brought to justice two years after the inauguration of the country’s Special Criminal Court (SCC), Amnesty International said today.