Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed, an international rights group said Thursday. Amid heightened political tensions, the Human Rights Watch report was released only days after a high profile government critic briefly disappeared. HRW said Bangladeshi authorities have detained hundreds of people in secret … Read more
Exiled Democratic Republic of Congo opposition politician Moise Katumbi on Friday filed a complaint with the UN in Geneva against President Joseph Kabila’s government. Katumbi, a powerful businessman and ex-governor of the mineral-rich Katanga province, said he was “confident” after filing the complaint with the UN Human Rights Committee. The prominent government critic told AFP … Read more
Ugandan prosecutors have questioned the sanity of a prominent government critic, who has been charged with cyber harassment for calling President Yoweri Museveni a “pair of buttocks” in a Facebook post (see earlier entry ). The hashtag #PairOfButtocks is now trending on Twitter in Uganda as people discuss the high-profile case. Stella Nyanzi pleaded not … Read more