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Zimbabwe: Student Leaders Freed - 21 June 2010 |
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Harare Magistrate Don Ndirowei on Monday 21 June 2010 freed five student leaders, who were arrested at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) last week for allegedly participating in a gathering with intent to cause public violence. (read more) |
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ADF Statement on the Death of a Prominent Human Rights Activist in DRC - 3 June 2010 |
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The African Democracy Forum (ADF), a network of over 450 democracy and human rights organizations throughout Africa, is in a state of shock to learn the death of Mr. Floribert CHEBEYA BAHIZIRE, Executive Director of La Voix des sans-Voix (the Voice of the Voiceless - VSV), prominent human rights activist, and ADF member from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mr. Maina KIAI, a member of ADF Management Committee and former Chairperson of Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights, remembers Mr. CHEBEYA BAHIRIZE, saying “Floribert was one of the original pioneers in the African human rights movement. His work, contributions, and inputs have inspired so many people across Africa.” (read) (la version française) Le Forum africaine pour la démocratie (African Democracy Forum - ADF), un réseau de plus de 450 organisations pour la démocratie et des droits humains en Afrique, est dans un état de choc d'apprendre la mort de M. Floribert CHEBEYA BAHIZIRE, directeur exécutif de La Voix des sans-Voix (VSV), éminent militant des droits de l'homme, et membre de l’ADF de Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo (RDC). M. Maina KIAI, membre du ADF Management Committee et ancien président de la Commission nationale du Kenya pour les droits de l'homme, souvenez-vous M. CHEBEYA BAHIRIZE, en disant: "Floribert a été l'un des pionniers du mouvement africain des droits de l'homme. Son travail et contributions ont inspiré beaucoup de gens en Afrique." (lirez) |
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MAGUWU’S LIFE ENDANGERED – 16 June 2010 |
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The life of Farai Maguwu, the incarcerated director of the Center for Research and Development (CRD) in Zimbabwe, is in danger after police officers who abducted him from remand prison tampered with his medication. Maguwu’s lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on Wednesday 16 June 2010 told High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu that some unidentified people, who hosted him after he was booked out of remand prison on Friday 11 June 2010 until his return on Tuesday 15 June 2010 had altered the medication which he was taking to cure a sore throat, chest infections and fever. Mtetwa said the unidentified people substituted Farai’s medication with medicine of unknown origins. In response to Mtetwa’s concerns and complains Justice Bhunu, who presided over the bail hearing lodged by Maguwu’s lawyers ordered the human rights defender to be examined forthrightly by a medical doctor of his own choice. Meanwhile, Justice Bhunu postponed Maguwu’s bail hearing to Thursday 17 June 2010 at 14:30 hours. By Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) |
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NGO Statement at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (May 2010) |
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On 8-10 May 2010, 164 NGO representatives from 30 African countries gathered in Bangul, the Gambia, to develop a NGO statement delivered to the 47th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. In their statement, human rights defenders expressed their concerns over reports of increased intimidation, harassement, and attaches directed at people of different sexual orientation in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, and Uganda. The statement request the Commission to pay particular attention to issues of limmited freedom of expression, opinion, and assembly in Agnola, Burundi, CAR, DRC, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sengal, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe. Among many other issues, NGO representatives highlighted the significance of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, and expressed their support for the speedy ratification and implementation of the Charter. The statement was delivered on 12 May to the African Commission's opening session by Hannah Forster, Execustive Director of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies and Chairperson of ADF. (Read More) |
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