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WaterAid launches handwashing project in Burkina prisons
Author: Jean
Published: 29 Nov 2011
The "Clean hands in prison" campaign is focused on raising awareness on the importance of washing hands, reducing the prevalence and transmission rates of diseases brought about by a lack of hygiene and sanitation in jails.
ACJR News News Burkina Faso
Eight dead after police action ahead of DRC elections
Author: Jean
Published: 28 Nov 2011
Up to 32 million Congolese are due to head to the polls on Monday 28 November after a weekend marked by deadly street clashes and allegations of cheating
ACJR News News Democratic Republic of Congo
Chief Justice of Nigeria criticises use of holding charges
Author: Jean
Published: 16 Nov 2011
Top judge condemns the practice of filing holding charges against accused persons and “trial by public parade of suspects on pages of newspapers and on the television” and blames the practice for congestion in prisons.
News Nigeria
Guinea paralegals detained and intimidated
Author: Jean
Published: 11 Nov 2011
Human Rights Watch called on the Guinean government to investigate the role of two high-level officials in the apparent illegal detention and intimidation of members of a prominent Guinean human rights group.
Guinea Paralegals News
'Detention used to stifle dissent in Uganda'
Author: Jean
Published: 09 Nov 2011
Amnesty International released a report on 1 November 2011 which accuses the Ugandan state of targeting critical journalists, civil society activists and opposition political leaders with "arbitrary arrest, intimidation, threats and politically motivated criminal charges".
News Uganda
Volcano threatens Goma prison
Author: Jean
Published: 09 Nov 2011
Africa's most active volcano, Nyamuragira, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, began erupting on the night of 6 November 2011.
ACJR News News Democratic Republic of Congo