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"Corruption" judge appointed to reduce delays
Raising constitutional issues leads to delays in corruption cases; appointment of High Court judge to deal with these matters is hoped to reduce delays.
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"Elbow Licking Friday" brutal arrests in Sudan
The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists condemned in a press release acts of the Sudanese authorities against demonstrations that took place in many parts ...
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"How the law on police use of deadly force is weakened" - by Clare Ballard
On Thursday 16 August 2012, 36 miners were killed by South African Police Services officials at Marikana mine in Mpumalanga. The violence arose out of a ...
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"Long list" of indicators proposed toward pre-trial justice in Africa
At a seminar held in Cape Town in May 2015, participants from PPJA partner organisations discussed indicators for measuring pre-trial justice in Africa. A ...
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"We are all dying here": prisons in Chad
The African Press Organization reports that an Amnesty International Report on Chad to be released on 10 September will detail human rights violations in ...
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'Detention used to stifle dissent in Uganda'
Amnesty International released a report on 1 November 2011 which accuses the Ugandan state of targeting critical journalists, civil society activists and ...
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'Insult to the President' Malawi pretrial detainees released after 17 months awaiting trial
A Lilongwe court released five security guards arrested under insult laws after an application by the Malawi Human Rights Commission.
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'Kenya police detain and kill with impunity'
The Release Political Prisoners (RPP) Trust, a lobby group, claims to have documented at least 35 cases of extra-judicial killings committed since December ...
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'Libya's Prisons under militia control'
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'Moroccan prisons overcrowded' says Minister
The Minister of Justice, Mustapha Ramid, said that prisons in Morocco house nearly 65,000 prisoners, while their capacity is only 30 000.
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