Teargas and gunshots have on Monday morning rocked parts of Kampala City as Police battled to disperse protestors attempting to take part in the Walk to walk demonstrations. Many shops have remained closed in the Central Business District following…
Amnesty International today urged Egypt’s military leadership to immediately and unconditionally release a jailed blogger after the military appeals court in Cairo ordered a retrial of his case. Maikel Nabil Sanad, a 26-year-old blogger, is in very poor health…
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons are currently on the 18th day of a hunger strike that began on 27 September, calling for better prisoner rights and improved incarceration conditions. The Palestinian Prisoners Movement first appeared on…
The lower house of Belarus’s parliament has passed amendments to the Law on Mass Activities in the Republic of Belarus that specifically ban demonstrations organized through the Internet. «An amendment has been added about the organization of unsanctioned gatherings…
The members of the “house of representatives” adopted amendments to the Law on mass events at two readings on October 3. The news was spread by the press service of the “house of representatives”. The amendments need to be…
The Azerbaijani authorities must immediately release three leading opposition activists imprisoned for organizing and taking part in peaceful protests, Amnesty International said today after a court in Baku sentenced them to two and a half years each in prison…
It was the day after my last exam for the quarter. I was sat having coffee with a friend, telling her how excited I was to take a much needed break from all the stress I was under at…
Sr. Mary Dennis Lentsch’s voice is soft, with a little bit of a nasal tone. To hear her, you have to learn forward in your chair, and turn your ear in her direction. Yet, Lentsch, a member of…
Former dissident and now publisher of Poland’s biggest newspaper honoured for work for international cultural relations One of Poland‘s leading journalists and intellectuals has been awarded the Goethe medal in recognition of his «outstanding» contribution to the dialogue…
I started to compile a more comprehensive wrap on recent developments in Fiji – more attacks on unions, the media, the Methodist Church – but then things started moving so fast on several fronts that I gave up,…