Press release & Declaration
In a statement on the crystallization of the political debate about the admissibility of the application of the outgoing President, Abdoulaye Wade, ROADDH/WAHRDN asks to the Senegalese authorities to ensure compliance with the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully and to cease right away manhunt in Senegal
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Senegal: Violent assaults on the human right activists Mr. Alioune Tine and Mr. Oumar Diallo.
Togo: Civil society before the HRC/Joint press release by CACIT and the ROADDH/WAHRDN 03/15/2011
Statement: CRITICAL SITUATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN COTE D`IVOIRE 12-20-2010
Collectif Devenons Citoyen (CDEC-BF) : Statement on the presidential election in Burkina Faso. 11-19-2010
ROADDH/WAHRDN: Press release on the arrest of Mr. Koffi Komdedzi FOLIKPO in Lomé. Published 08/11/2010
NEWS ABOUT THE AUTOPSY OF FLORIBERT CHEBEYA
The Congolese Human Rights defender, Floribert Chebeya would have died of cardiac arrest resulting from violence. The autopsy was released by Dutch and Congolese pathologists on Friday, July 9, 2010.
The family strives to know what exactly happened between 1 and 2 June 2010, while the President of the NGO Voice of the Voiceless, Floribert Chebeya was summoned to the General Inspectorate of the Kinshasa police . Premeditated crime or accident during a torture session?
Colonel Daniel Mukalay first suspect arrested, reportedly said "there was no intention to cause death". But for some criminologists, the very reasons of the invitation of the Executive Director of the Voice of the Voiceless to the General Inspectorate of Police, may be indicative of a premeditated murder. The disappearance of the driver and brother in law of Chebeya,who is still not found may, according to the same criminologists be additional clues to further investigations.
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Senegal: Violent assaults on the human right activists Mr. Alioune Tine and Mr. Oumar Diallo. Togo: Civil society before the HRC/Joint press release by CACIT and the ROADDH/WAHRDN 03/15/2011 Statement: CRITICAL SITUATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN COTE D`IVOIRE 12-20-2010 Collectif Devenons Citoyen (CDEC-BF) : Statement on the presidential election in Burkina Faso. 11-19-2010 ROADDH/WAHRDN: Press release on the arrest of Mr. Koffi Komdedzi FOLIKPO in Lomé. Published 08/11/2010NEWS ABOUT THE AUTOPSY OF FLORIBERT CHEBEYA
The Congolese Human Rights defender, Floribert Chebeya would have died of cardiac arrest resulting from violence. The autopsy was released by Dutch and Congolese pathologists on Friday, July 9, 2010.
The family strives to know what exactly happened between 1 and 2 June 2010, while the President of the NGO Voice of the Voiceless, Floribert Chebeya was summoned to the General Inspectorate of the Kinshasa police . Premeditated crime or accident during a torture session?
Colonel Daniel Mukalay first suspect arrested, reportedly said "there was no intention to cause death". But for some criminologists, the very reasons of the invitation of the Executive Director of the Voice of the Voiceless to the General Inspectorate of Police, may be indicative of a premeditated murder. The disappearance of the driver and brother in law of Chebeya,who is still not found may, according to the same criminologists be additional clues to further investigations.
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ROADDH/WAHRDN: Assassination of a human rights defender in the Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC). Picture poster on Floribert CHEBEYA BAHIZIRE----------------------------
ROADDH/WAHRDN: The France-Africa summit must commit to put an end to the impunity of the violations of human rights defenders in Africa. --------------------------------
Guinea at the UPR: Press release by the organizations of Guinean civil society that took part in the 8th session of Universal Periodic Review on Guinea. published on May 7, 2010.----------------
Niger: Press release (WAHRDN/ROADDH) on the imprisonment of Marou Amadou. (january 28, 2010)
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Gambia: Declarations of the West African Human Rights Defenders Network at the 46th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights. Banjul, Nov. 2009
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Gambia: Alarming situation of human rights defenders
«....If you are affiliated with any human rights group, be rest assured that your security and personal safety would not be guaranteed by my Government. We are ready to kill saboteurs.» President Col. A.J.J Jammeh
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Gambia: "Are human rights defenders still safe in the Gambia''?
question human rights experts. GENEVA and BANJUL (9 October 2009)
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Three Special Rapporteurs1 from the United Nations and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights* are deeply concerned for the security of human rights defenders in the Gambia and hundreds of those who will attend the forthcoming session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, from 11 to 25 November 2009, in the Gambian capital, Banjul, headquarters of the Commission.
The human rights experts are deeply disturbed by statements attributed to President Jammeh made on 21 September 2009, where he publicly threatened to kill human rights defenders in the Gambia and all people cooperating with them. "Such alleged public statements by a Head of State are unacceptable and in contradiction with all human rights instruments ratified by the Gambia," stress the Special Rapporteurs. "They contribute to the stigmatization of human rights defenders in the country, raise grave concern about the protection and promotion of human rights in the Gambia; and set a very negative example regionally and internationally." "Hundreds of national and international human rights defenders will gather next month in the Gambia; will they be really safe?", question the human rights experts.
"We call on the President of the Gambia to issue another public statement in which he highlights the importance and legitimacy of the work of human rights defenders, and their essential contributions to the strengthening of democracy and the rule of law in contradiction to what may have been reported." The Special Rapporteurs urge the Gambian authorities to take all necessary steps to ensure the protection by all relevant authorities of everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.
The three experts are further concerned that the right to freedom of opinion and expression is being stifled in the Gambia and that all persons who voice criticism of the Government are now exposed to heighted risk to their physical and psychological integrity. "We urge the Gambian government to take all necessary steps to secure the right to freedom of opinion and expression of all persons, including human rights defenders in the Gambia, in accordance with fundamental principles as set forth in article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and reiterated in article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," stressed the Special Rapporteurs.
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1- Ms. Margaret Sekaggya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; Mr. Frank La Rue, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; and Ms. Reine Alapini-Gansou, Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders from the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
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