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The Bukavu military court has sentenced a Congolese policeman to 20 years of prison for raping two minors. The girls we...
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Nepal: Human rights excluded from the political sphere

16.11.2017 - (Last modified: 21.11.2017)
Legislative elections will be held on 26 November and 7 December this year in the small Himalayan republic. Unfortunatel...
Nepal, ©Kaushal Sapkota
(Banjul, The Gambia, October 21, 2017) - Victims of the former Gambian government of Yahya Jammeh and Gambian and intern...

Rifaat Al-Assad case

03.10.2017 - (Last modified: 23.02.2024)
Rifaat Al-Assad is a career military man and a Syrian politician. He is the younger brother of the former president of S...
To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council: Renewing the Mandate of the...
Alice (real name withheld) lives in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. Despite the government’s assertions that the coun...
Abdennacer Naït-Liman has been through hell in Tunisian prisons. His torturers have never been convicted. On 14 June, TR...

A student unjustly jailed for years

26.04.2017 - (Last modified: 17.08.2017)
Onesphore Case 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 p...

Burundi: pre-crisis violence must not be forgotten

03.03.2017 - (Last modified: 10.03.2017)
In 2014, a political drag-net cast over the opposition highlighted the repression that prevails in the country. However,...

Victory before the UN for wife of disappeared militant

10.11.2016 - (Last modified: 17.11.2016)
Mr. Nepali was a journalist at a Maoist daily newspaper during the civil war that opposed Nepali security forces with t...
Geneva, 26 July 2016 – A coalition of Burundian NGOs[1], with the support of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMC...

Tortured, harassed, and driven into exile to save his family

06.06.2016 - (Last modified: 01.02.2018)
One morning in 2006 as he was leaving his house, Alain (not his real name) found himself eye to eye with about twenty policemen who had come to arrest him. Immediately taken to the police station, he was – wrongly – accused of preparing a coup d’état. Faced with his refusal to acknowledge the false allegations, the agents beat him. Alain was severely beaten and la...