Tag: Human rights
“Risk everything” in the name of freedom
This April 25, Portugal commemorates the fifty years of the military coup which overthrew the longest dictatorship that Europe knew in the 20th century. Some resistance fighters who “ risk…
rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death for supporting protests
An Iranian court sentenced to death a famous Iranian rapper imprisoned for more than a year and a half for his support for the 2022 protest movement triggered after the…
“The gap has never been greater between the Islamic regime and the population”
From Evin prison, Narges Mohammadi managed to send a poignant testimony about the oppression of women by the ruling regime in Iran. Deprivation of freedoms, physical and sexual assaults, put…
high levels of cyber violence deter women from entering politics and activism
In Tunisia, digital technology is a double-edged tool for the cause of women. After the 2011 revolution, social networks helped free speech with the EnaZeda movement, a sort of Tunisian…
the media, worried about the pressures suffered, request an audience with President Doumbouya
In Guinea, restrictions on press freedom continue. Faced with what they consider to be a dismantling of the private media network, the associations wish to speak directly with President Mamadi…
human rights defenders warn about the case of Georges Mfor Tang, convicted of “terrorism”
In Cameroon, Georges Mfor Tang is one case among others who must not be forgotten, according to Redhac, the Network of Human Rights Defenders in Central Africa. Arrested in 2017,…
Parliament votes in favor of controversial law, thousands of opponents in the streets
Thousands of people demonstrated in the evening this Tuesday March 16 in Tbilisi, Georgia, after a first vote in Parliament in favor of a controversial bill on “foreign agents”, already…
a year ago, the arrest of Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan
RFI was able to meet Yu Wensheng and Xu Yan at their home in Beijing in the summer of 2022. The couple was then under surveillance but relished the lawyer’s…
Proposed law on the right to strike in transport: “It is a text which is not constructive”
Three months before the Paris Olympic Games, the Senate is tackling strikes. A highly sensitive bill is being examined this Tuesday to limit strikes in transport over certain periods. The…
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris detained for two years in Iran
Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris were arrested on May 7, 2022 while they were on a tourist trip to Iran. Since then, for French diplomacy and their relatives, they have…