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Nepal: Human rights excluded from the political sphere
16.11.2017 - (Last modified: 21.11.2017)Rifaat Al-Assad case
03.10.2017 - (Last modified: 23.02.2024)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)Victory before the UN for wife of disappeared militant
10.11.2016 - (Last modified: 17.11.2016)UN examination of the Burundi: civil society condemns a human rights crisis
26.07.2016 - (Last modified: 12.07.2017)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...