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  • July 18, 2019
    NGOs alert French prosecutor over 'illegal detention' at French-Italian border

    Migrants at the French-Italian border have been illegally detained and pushed back to Italy by French border guards, says a coalition of French human rights and humanitarian organisations.

  • February 17, 2018
    Call for ICC to investigate Libya's forced displacement of Tawerghan residents

    Armed groups and civilian authorities in the Libyan coastal city of Misrata are blocking thousands of people from the town of Tawergha from returning to their hometown after seven years of forced displacement, says Human Righrs Watch.

  • June 26, 2017
    May must act on Briton detained in Ethiopia, say campaigners

    It is three years since British father Andy Tsege was first illegally kidnapped from an international airport and rendered to Ethiopia’s death row. His partner, Yemi Hailemariam, has written to the Prime Minister asking her to negotiate his return home to her and their three children Helawit (17) Yilak and Menabe (both 10) in London.

  • March 21, 2017
    Put Libya ahead of ‘narrow interests' says UN envoy

    Warning of escalating tension across the North African country due to mobilisation of forces, the worsening security situation in the capital, Tripoli, as well as recent violence in Misrata and Benghazi, the United Nations envoy for Libya yesterday has called on all parties to unite and to put the country ahead of their “own narrow interests.”

  • February 16, 2017
    Bahrain at 'tipping point' as crackdown continues

    The authorities in Bahrain must refrain from using excessive force against protesters, Amnesty International has urged, as mass protests took place to mark the sixth anniversary of the country's 2011 uprising.

  • August 15, 2016
    Fears for Briton following Ethiopian crackdown

    The killing of almost 100 street protestors in Ethiopia and a new round of political trials have raised fears for a British political activist on death row there, international human rights charity Reprieve has said.

  • August 15, 2016
    Bangladesh authorities urged to end illegal detentions

    Bangladeshi authorities should immediately end the illegal detentions of Mir Qasem Ali and Humman Qader Chowdhury, arrested respectively on 9 August and 4 August 2016, say Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

  • June 2, 2016
    Foreign Secretary fails to request kidnapped Briton's release

    The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says he used a visit to Ethiopia yesterday (1 June 2016) to secure ‘legal access’ for a British man who was kidnapped and rendered to the country in 2014, and who is now held under sentence of death.

  • May 25, 2016
    Kidnapped Briton spends 700th day in illegal detention

    A British man who is held under sentence of death in Ethiopia has spent his 700th day in unlawful detention, after he was kidnapped and rendered to the country by Ethiopian forces in 2014.

  • May 25, 2016
    Kidnapped Briton spends 700th day in illegal detention

    A British man who is held under sentence of death in Ethiopia has spent his 700th day in unlawful detention, after he was kidnapped and rendered to the country by Ethiopian forces in 2014.