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Enforced Disappearance of Roy Rivera in Mexico: Seven Years without Answers and Justice

15.01.2018 - (Last modified: 29.10.2018)

Mexico

Irma Leticia Hidalgo Rea v. Mexico In the night between 10 and 11 January 2011, a group of heavily armed men broke into...

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Fight against impunity: will Tunisia respect its commitments?

14.12.2017

Tunisia

Tomorrow, on the 13 December, the Tunis Court of Appeal will deliberate on the fate of the torturers of Rached Jaïdane,...

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Between a rock and a hard place: wartime victim still denied reparation

07.11.2017

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Mrs. A. (real name withheld) was raped during the war. Now she is stuck between unenforced compensation and stringent st...

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Kavumu case: young girls abducted at night and raped

31.10.2017 - (Last modified: 18.07.2018)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kavumu is a particularly poor village situated in the province of South Kivu, in Eastern DRC. Not far from the provincia...

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Rifaat Al-Assad case

03.10.2017

Syria

Rifaat Al-Assad is a career military man and a Syrian politician. He is the younger brother of the former president of S...

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DRC: justice has spoken for the 150 victims of Musenyi

02.08.2017 - (Last modified: 18.07.2018)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

In September 2015, the village of Musenyi experienced absolute horror: a series of rapes and looting, committed by the C...

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Ousman Sonko

10.07.2017 - (Last modified: 04.04.2019)

Gambia

Ousman Sonko was the Minister of Interior under the Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh from 2006 to 2016. During this period...

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Repression in Burundi, arrest in the DRC

03.07.2017 - (Last modified: 07.07.2017)

Burundi

Journalist Egide Mwemero was tortured in the DRC for “crimes” committed in Burundi – a case that illustrates the silenci...

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A student unjustly jailed for years

26.04.2017 - (Last modified: 17.08.2017)

Burundi

Student and member of the opposition detained Mr. Onesphore (real name withheld) is a student and political opponent. In 2015, while having lunch, he was arrested by police officers and locked up in a cell, before being transferred to a prison, where he is still detained to this day. Like others before him, he is a victim of the wave of arrests of political opponents...

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