Tag: Human rights
Alexei Navalny added to list of “terrorists and extremists” enemies of Russia
The main opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and one of his collaborators in exile, Lioubov Sobol, have been placed on this list of the Russian financial intelligence service, Rosfinmonitoring.…
gesture of openness by the Taliban in Oslo before the meeting with Europeans and Americans
The Taliban are beginning their first official trip to Europe, in a first that takes place in Norway, where a delegation from the Islamist movement which took power in Afghanistan…
In Kenya, sexual violence was a political weapon during the presidential election
Nine months before the next presidential election scheduled for August 2022, FIDH and the Kenyan Federation for Human Rights warn of the phenomenon of sexual violence in a report published…
Sentenced for incitement to hatred, Éric Zemmour announces appeal
Presidential candidate Éric Zemmour was sentenced on Monday to a fine of 10,000 euros for incitement to hatred after remarks on unaccompanied minors in 2020. He announced that he would…
philanthropist Osman Kavala remains in prison despite European threats
Turkish justice has decided to keep in detention the patron and philanthropist Osman Kavala, imprisoned for four years without trial. A decision that risks tensing up the Council of Europe…
a year after the arrest of Alexeï Navalny, the opposition still repressed
Exactly a year ago, on January 17, 2021, Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow, after a four-month convalescence in Germany, following his poisoning. As soon as he arrived on Russian soil,…
the mobilization against the putschist power continues, the media targeted by the authorities
On Sunday January 16, doctors protested against attacks on hospitals by security forces during the demonstrations. And civil society calls to take to the streets again this Monday, January 17…
Two close collaborators of Navalny become “terrorists and extremists”
This is information that usually falls on Fridays in Russia, new rankings “foreign agents” or other infamous qualifications. On January 14, it was the two main allies of Alexei Navalny…
“Hong Kong, Fallen City”, by Lau Kwong-Shing, a critique of repression
Comics Hong Kong, Fallen City, published by Rue de l’Échiquier, questions with acuity the shift from democracy to dictatorship. It is a manifesto in favor of freedoms and human rights,…
a critical professor of the Taliban arrested
A respected Afghan university professor, known for his criticism of the Taliban, was arrested on Saturday (January 8) in Kabul, a spokesman for the Taliban government said on Sunday, accusing…