Author: Jean
Published:
22
May
2012
A Lilongwe court released five security guards arrested under insult laws after an application by the Malawi Human Rights Commission.
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Malawi
Author: Jean
Published:
17
May
2012
ANSAmed reports on the strategies of the Algerian Penitentiary Administration in seeking to educate its youthful detainees.
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Algeria
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Author: Jean
Published:
14
May
2012
High Court Judge Ralph Ochan this week dismissed terrorism charges against eleven Buganda riots suspects first indicted in 2009.
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Uganda
Author: Jean
Published:
12
May
2012
Sierra Leone’s parliament has just enacted a legal aid law which provides for the role of paralegals.
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Sierra Leone
Author: Jean
Published:
05
May
2012
Malik Medjnoune was held for 12 years in pre-trial detention until international pressure from Amensty International and Alkarama, an Arab human rights organisation, forced a one-day "trial" in July 2011. He was released in May 2012, having served the full 12 years of the sentence handed down.
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Algeria
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Author: Jean
Published:
05
May
2012
Employees of the US Embassy in Kigali have commended the Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) for promoting better and safer environment for inmates of this prison.
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Rwanda
Author: Jean
Published:
03
May
2012
UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has expressed concern to Libya's authorities over the deaths of three people in a detention centre in the north-western city of Misrata on 13 April 2012, saying it believes that the deaths were the result of torture. Most detainees are alleged Gadaffi sympathizers. Meanwhile, the Libyan authorities pass a number of new laws criminalizing opposition to the revolution.
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Libya
Author: Jean
Published:
02
May
2012
Family of the dead detainee demand a probe into his death amid allegations that Police Commander Harry Bai runs the police station in which the death occurred like a private home.
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