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SOUTH AFRICA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS ON GOVERNMMENT TO PROTECT THOSE AT RISK OF "XENOPHOBIC" ATTACK |
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT
23 May 2008
Amnesty International today called on the South African government to take all necessary measures to protect the human rights of people at continuing risk of violent attacks and displacement from their homes on the basis of their perceived ethnic origins or status as “foreigners” or asylum-seekers.
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Zimbabwe: State-sponsored violence and coercion create fundamentally flawed election |
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
Amnesty International today said that it is deeply disturbed by the continuing campaign of state violence and intimidation as part of a deliberate strategy by the Zimbabwean government to ensure that Robert Mugabe wins today’s presidential election.
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ZIMBABWE: Torture and ill-treatment/ harassment |
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Jenni
Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, the leaders of the activist
organisation Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were granted bail on 3 July
by the High Court. They had spent nearly six weeks in detention at
Chikurubi Maximum Prison in Harare.
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Displaced people should not be forcibly removed from temporary camps |
Amnesty International today condemned the forcible removal by police of more than 700 people,including refugees and asylum-seekers, from the Glenanda ("Rifle Range Road") displacement camp near Johannesburg to Lindela Repatriation Centre.
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