Peter Sawali was arrested in Blantyre on 3 February for putting up posters saying 'Gay rights are human rights'. He was charged with 'conduct likely to cause a breach of peace' and could face up to three months in prison. A police spokesman Dave...
Henry Ochieng, editor of the Daily Monitor news magazine and Angelo Izama, a senior reporter were charged with criminal libel yesterday after a complaint from President Yoweri Museveni about an article that compared him to Ferdinand Marcos, former...
Five people were arrested on 3 February after a group of men assaulted Victoire Ingabire; her assistant Joseph Ntawangundi was badly beaten in the attack in the capital, Kigali. Ingabire who intends to run for president returned to Rwanda in...
The editor of Taqadoumy website Hanevy Ould Dehah remains in detention after a Supreme Court decision to retry him on a charge of 'offending public decency', a crime for which he has already served a six-month sentence. Commenting on his...
There are increasing concerns about the whereabouts of missing dissident Gao Zhisheng. The case is unusual because the Chinese authorities have refusedto divulge Gao's whereabouts. Gao has vanished without legal explanation, normally even in the...
Veteran Ethiopian journalist Ezedin Mohamed, editor of Islamic paper Al Quds, was sentenced to one year in jail on the 30 January. According to CPJ, the sentence relates to Mohamed's response to a 2008 Guardian interview with Meles Zenawi; Mohamad...