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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 President of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU), and a member of the Cambodian Watchdog Council (...

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 which they have been detained affects social security and is therefore unbailable. Rong Chhun and Sa...