The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lissu, who was shot 16 times in a 2017 attack for which no one has ever been charged, will appear in court on Monday.

Tanzanian Politician's Lawyers Ask UN to Declare His Detention Arbitrary. More. Reuters. ... was arrested last month and charged with treason, a capital offence, ...

Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in a bid to ramp up international pressure for ...

The Tunisian government has turned arbitrary detention into a cornerstone of its repressive policy, aimed at depriving people of their civil and political rights. Following President Kais Saied’s ...

TUNIS - Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday arbitrary detention was being used to eliminate dissent in Tunisia and called on its government to halt the crackdown and free all detainees, amid a ...

The Observatory has been informed about the arbitrary arrest and detention of Messrs. Bashir Suleymanli and Mammad Alpay, two prominent human rights defenders. Mr Suleymanli heads the Institute for ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy compulsory veiling using arbitrary detention, ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders condemned the Ugandan government Wednesday for the arrest, torture and judicial harassment of human rights lawyer Eron Kiiza.. Kiiza was ...

The message, titled: “Order and Directives: Arbitrary Arrest and Detention,” reiterated that youth harassment, phone seizures, and unnecessary detentions at checkpoints must cease immediately.

U.S. citizens arrested by Nicaraguan authorities may face detention for long periods without charges, particularly for politically motivated arrests and for property disputes, the U.S. government ...

Arbitrary arrest / Detention / Judicial and administrative harassment / Ill-treatment Israel / Occupied Palestinian Territory 8 November 2024. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights ...