Tag: Human rights
Senegal experiencing a shrinking democratic space, according to the Civicus Monitor platform
“ It’s really worrying to see the situation deteriorate so quickly in a country which had a stable democracy for a while. » Nancy Kankam Kusi, of the civil society…
Lee Jae-myung, opposition leader hospitalized
In South Korea, opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was taken to hospital on Monday, September 18, after nineteen days of hunger strike. The leader of the Democratic Party, narrowly defeated in…
Ballack Obame, former imprisoned student leader, experiences a second release
Among the first measures announced by General Oligui Nguema, who became president of the transition: the release of prisoners of conscience. Thus, some are calling for the release of Lieutenant…
press freedom under threat
South Korea is, once again, singled out for attacks on press freedom. The International Federation of Journalists has condemned the ruling party for its harassment and intimidation of journalists. A…
French detainees Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris face possible trial for espionage
It has been almost 500 days since French teacher and trade unionist Cécile Kohler has been detained in Iran with her partner Jacques Paris. On Tuesday, September 12, Iranian justice…
“For some protesters in Iran, their gouged eyes are like a medal of honor”
On September 14, 2022, Iranian journalist exiled in France since 2010 Aïda Ghajar revealed, with supporting photos, that Mahsa Amini was in a coma in a hospital in Tehran, after…
Prison overcrowding: “Reintegration is impossible today”
The general controller of places of deprivation of liberty in France is calling for a law against prison overcrowding, an endemic problem in French prisons. As of August 1, France…
In France, the weapon of law to fight the perpetrators of abuses in Iran
A year after the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, the diaspora and civil society are mobilizing in France to support the harshly repressed protest movement. The Iran Justice collective,…
Six young Portuguese take 33 countries to European justice for climate inaction
They are aged 11 to 24 and argue that the forest fires that Portugal has experienced every year since 2017 are the direct result of global warming. They claim that…
release of a trade union leader on the orders of the president of the transition
In Gabon, the leader of the coalition of civil servants’ unions, Dynamique unititaire (DU), Jean-Rémy Yama, was released yesterday, Tuesday, September 5, at the end of the morning, on the…