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Ethiopia: Reporters Without Borders writes to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
Reporters Without Borders wrote yesterday to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi voicing concern about a deterioration in the climate for journalists in recent weeks...
ICC Prosecutor to visit Kenya to meet victims and listen to all Kenyans
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will visit Kenya May 8-12 to lead investigations, and meet with victims of Kenya's post-election violence.
"As promised, I...
Nigeria: Ex-whistleblower vindicated of corruption charges
Former head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been cleared of all charges labeled against him...
Nigeria: Former minister braces up for corruption charges
The former minister in charge of Nigeria's federal capital of Abuja has returned from a self-imposed exile to face charges of financial misappropriation and...
39 Christian ‘cult’ members in Uganda prison for uncultured behaviour
39 members of a cult called 'End time Gospel' based in central Uganda, currently in remand prison for holding unlawful assembly and behaving in...
U.S. Appellate Court to Rehear Disfranchisement Case
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered rehearing in a case challenging Washington State's racially discriminatory law that denies the vote to people...
Ethiopian journalists nabbed for attempting to transfer “sensitive information”
Two Ethiopian journalists have appeared before the country's high court charged with an attempt to sell sensitive security information to an international television news...
11 Somali pirates could face life behind bars in the US
11 Somali men are being held for trial in a U.S. federal court on charges of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, where piracy...
Rwanda: Opposition leader must receive fair trial
Amnesty International urges the Rwandan Government to ensure that opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, receives a swift, fair trial on charges including genocide ideology and...
Cafeteria Workers Joined by Broad Community Coalition Speak Out on Food Service Multinational Sodexo’s Record on Diversity
On the five-year anniversary of the 2005 settlement of the class action discrimination lawsuit brought by African American managers against Sodexo, community leaders, students...
Zambia / Prison Conditions Endanger Inmates / Criminal Justice Failures, Overcrowding, and Poor Care Exacerbate Spread of TB, HIV
Prisoners in Zambia suffer malnutrition, overcrowding, grossly inadequate medical care, and the risk of rape or torture, the Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCCA),...
Rwanda: Editor of bi-monthly acquitted on appeal
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the acquittal on appeal of Asumani Niyonambaza, editor of the bi-monthly newspaper Rugari.
A judge at the Nyarugenge High Court...
Sudan: Request for Finding of Non-Cooperation with ICC
The prosecutor's office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) made public today its request to the court's pre-trial chamber I for a finding of...
SBA and Diamond Ventures, LLC Ordered to Mediate a Settlement
"It is time to get serious... it is time to get this resolved," said Judge Gladys Kessler at the status hearing of the landmark...
Democratic republic of Congo: Two soldiers sentenced to death just 12 days after cameraman’s murder
Two Congolese army soldiers, Sgt. Paluku Selemani Ngewese and 2nd Lt. Songa Safari, were sentenced to death by a military court in Béni, in...
MISA-Tanzania Statement: Four year [2006 – 2010] process in search for good Laws relating to the Right to Information must not be neglected by the Government of Tanzania
On 14 April 2010 during the current Parliament sessions in Dodoma, Hon. Damas P. Nakei, MP for Babati rural asked a question in the...
Global Witness welcomes Dutch court decision to retry timber baron Guus Kouwenhoven for crimes committed during Liberian war
The Dutch Supreme Court has overturned a 2008 ruling by the Court of Appeal which cleared businessman Guus Kouwenhoven of charges of involvement in...
NAACP LDF Report Highlights Impact of Felon Disfranchisement Laws
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) released Free the Vote: Unlocking Democracy in the Cells and on the Streets, a report...
“Courting Justice” a tribute to South African women
Two years after its initial release, the documentary film Courting Justice continues to inspire audiences around the world with its story of South African...
Swaziland: Reporter summoned to testify in court
On 12 April 2010, a reporter with the privately-owned Times of Swaziland newspaper, Musa Nhleko, was summoned to appear at the High Court of...
UK Parliament bans ‘Vulture Funds’ companies that fleece on Africa
The United Kingdom Parliament has passed a bill that bans the so-called Vulture funds. The dodgy loan transfer scheme was used by international finance...
Drug War Racism Ravishes America
A minor change in court processing procedures in Philadelphia, streamlining the handling of arrests for pot possession, sparked a major controversy recently that totally...
SA Police ready for Terre’Blanche trial
South African police on Tuesday said they have capacity to deal with any eventuality when two black men accused of murdering Eugene Terre'Blanche appear...
EACJ scales up sensitisation on arbitration in the partner states
The East African Court of Justice (EACJ) has organised a series of sensitisation workshops on its arbitration jurisdiction in the capitals of the five...
US-Algeria: Remarks of Attorney General Eric Holder at the Signing of the U.S.- Algeria Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty
The following are remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder:
Minister Belaiz, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen:
I am pleased to have the opportunity to be here...
US-Algeria: Attorney General Holder Signs First Criminal Law Enforcement Agreement Between United States and Algeria
Attorney General Eric Holder and Algerian Minister of Justice Tayeb Belaiz today signed a treaty between the United States and Algeria on mutual legal...
South African White supremacist blasts Nigerians after leader’s murder
Tensions were high at a Ventersdorp Magistrate's Court on Tuesday morning in South Africa where two black men accused of murdering a leader of...
ICC Prosecutor is given authorisation to open an investigation in Kenya
The FIDH and its member organisation, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), welcome the decision rendered yesterday by the judges of Pre-Trial Chamber II...
Payback time for Mugabe and cronies as White farmers grab properties
It’s pay back time for Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe.
A group of white commercial farmers who watched in despair as Mugabe regime grabbed their...
Zimbabwe: Chinamasa under fire for “ridiculous” comments
The legal fraternity in Zimbabwe has condemned Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa who claimed that “dismal and half baked’ lawyers are churned...