The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has condemned the arrest and detention of Professor Usman Yusuf, former Executive Secretary ...

"To end arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, the interim government should build systems prohibiting filing cases against unnamed accused and mass arrest warrants, revising laws that allow ...

Amnesty International called for urgent international action to address what it described as "a state-led campaign of mass arbitrary detention" of thousands in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where people ...

Reduced visa durations and intensified police raids have aggravated the alarming conditions of Afghan journalists exiled in ...

Record numbers of Palestinian children are being held without charges by Israel, a Palestinian children’s rights group ...

On January 7, 2025, soldiers blocked human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza from entering the defendant’s section of a military court ...

Before the elections, we documented that Mozambican authorities had rarely investigated formal complaints of harassment, threats, physical assault, and arbitrary arrest and detention targeting ...

Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has accused Nigerian Police Public Relations Officer Muyiwa Adejobi of abusing his power. In a post on his X account on Sunday, Sowore claimed that Adejobi ...

It described Yusuf’s arrest and detention as an attempt to silence ... suppressing dissenting voices through intimidation and arbitrary arrests could set a dangerous precedent for democracy ...

Israel is holding 112 Palestinian children in administrative detention as of December 31, says Defense for Children ...