HRW: Foreigners ‘live in constant fear’ in South Africa
Foreign nationals in South Africa suffer “routine” harassment, violence and discrimination by locals and government authorities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. The group...
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More than 50 prisoners starve to death in east Congo prison
Fifty-two inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United...
HRW: Murky arrest of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero an ‘enforced disappearance’
Human Rights Watch said on Friday that the shadowy arrest of the hero of the “Hotel Rwanda” film amounted to an “enforced disappearance”, demanding a...
Diplomats warn Zimbabwe against using coronavirus to restrict citizen rights
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling party has dismissed as “rubbish” a statement by Western diplomats warning Zimbabwe’s government not to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a...
Burundi jails members of notorious ruling party youth wing
A judge in Burundi has jailed more than a dozen police officers, local officials and members of the ruling party’s violent youth wing after finding...
Abductions, Censorship and Layoffs: Pakistani Critics Are Under Siege
When Prime Minister Imran Khan boasted last year that Pakistan had one of the “freest presses in the world,” journalists were quick to object, saying...