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Police arraign Ogechukwu Okeke for allegedly conspiring with others to kill one Chinonso Odenigbo at Abor, community, Enugu State.

Paris-Geneva, November 22, 2021 –Fourteen human rights defenders who had been held in arbitrary detention for months were released in the first (...)

STATEMENT - THE OBSERVATORY Paris-Geneva, November 22, 2021 – Fourteen human rights defenders who had been held in arbitrary detention for months were…

Cambodia: Denial of bail to Rong Chhun and Sar Kanika 09/06/2021 Arbitrary detention / June 9, 2021 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Cambodia. New information: Rong Chhun and Sar Kanika amid a COVID-19 outbreak in many Cambodian prisons. Mr. Chhun, a prominent labour rights defender, is the Presid...

Rong Chhun and Sar Kanika amid a COVID-19 outbreak in many Cambodian prisons. Mr. Chhun, a prominent labour rights defender, is the President of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU), and a member of the Cambodian Watchdog Council (CWC)[1]. Ms. Kanika is a member of the youth group Khmer Thavrak[2] and an ex-member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). On June 8, 2021, Rong Chhun and Sar Kanika were denied bail by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which claimed that the crime for ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Providing constitutional roles to traditional rulers spread across the country has been identified as one of the surest ways that will cripple the security challenges presently bedevilling the country. The Deputy Minority Leader in the red chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, who came out with the suggestion during an interactive session with media practitioners in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, believes that assigning constitutional rol...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and Governors of the South East to set up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate the spate of coordinated attacks on strategic national security assets and killings of security agents including the recent violent attack on the Federal Correction Centre and the police facilities in Owerri, the Imo State capital. HURIWA urged Buhari and the governors to ensure th...