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Chad’s transitional government should end its crackdown on opponents and provide redress for the serious human rights violations that occurred around the October 20, 2022, protests, Human Rights Watch said today.

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With the passing of Periyathamby Rajanayagam, another stalwart of the vintage days of left activism in Sri Lanka, is now gone. Rajanayagam was a trade unionist, human rights lawyer, journalist, writer and most importantly a life-long left political activist, to whom social justice, democracy and, with increasing authoritarianism, the right to dissent were consuming passions […]

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country's military chief, had hinted at releasing the five former politicians as a 'trust-building move'

More than a hundred Sudanese detainees, including high-profile politicians, have reportedly begun a hunger strike in protest at their unjustified detention, as protests against last year's military coup continue across the African country.

More than 100 Sudanese detainees, including senior politicians, started a hunger strike yesterday in protest of the detention conditions they are being held under, news agencies reported. In...

High-profile politicians Khaled Omar Youssef and Wagdi Saleh, arrested last week, among those starving themselves

KHARTOUM: More than 100 Sudanese detainees, including high-profile politicians, began a hunger strike on Tuesday, allied lawyers and doctors said. The detainees are part of the protest movement against an Oct. 25 army coup that ended a civilian-military power-sharing arrangement that followed the overthrow of long-ruling autocrat President Omar Bashir in 2019. The coup

Chaos in post-coup Sudan continues as politicians join civilians in a hunger strike against military rule

Professor Christof Heyns: A giant in human rights education   01 April 2021 The monumental contribution that Professor Christof Heyns has made to advance human rights in Africa and beyond emerged this week from a memorial Facebook page created to honour the former director of the Centre for Human Rights, which is part of the faculty of law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. The 62-year-old Heyns died on 29 March while on a hike near Stellenbosch, South Africa. Heyns was the director of t...