Tag: Human rights
For the prison controller, it is necessary to “imagine a coherent and visionary system”
The Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty curbs in her annual report the “guilty inertia” of the government in the face of record prison overcrowding in France. This…
French parliamentarians respond to the call of Iranian political prisoners against the executions
In a letter sent from Evin prison, six female political prisoners call on the international community to put an end to “mass executions”. They were heard by French parliamentarians. This…
more than ten people are executed every week, denounces the UN
Iran is one of the countries “where executions are the most numerous in the world”, regretted the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in a statement on Tuesday,…
Xinjiang, a laboratory for the high-tech tracking of Uyghurs
In the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China has taken mass surveillance to the extreme. In a new investigation, the NGO Human Rights Watch illustrates how, thanks to sophisticated technologies, the police…
UN committee denounces anti-Ukrainian racism in Russia
Russia has again been singled out by the UN for human rights abuses. This time it is the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A panel of experts related…
Republican France abolishes slavery
On April 27, 1848, the nascent Second Republic abolished slavery in the French colonies. Committed to the ideas of the abolitionist movement, the republican government which succeeded the July Monarchy…
Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, executed in Singapore for possession of cannabis
Singapore has just executed a man sentenced to hang five years ago for his involvement in drug trafficking involving a kilogram of cannabis, twice the amount punishable by death in…
Mayotte awaiting a vast police operation targeting criminals and illegal migrants
In Mayotte, police forces are flocking as part of the preparation for Operation Wuambushu – “recovery” in Mayotte – which could begin this weekend. This intervention aims to return to…
Yoli, an indigenous leader between the law of armed groups and a mining giant
RFI is joining forces with the international investigative consortium Forbidden Stories to resume the work of Rafael Moreno, a journalist killed on October 16, 2022 in circumstances that have not…
The European Parliament denounces in a resolution the law against homosexuality in Uganda
After the United States, the United Kingdom and the UN, the European Parliament is also preparing to ask for the repeal of the law criminalizing homosexuality in Uganda in a…