10 october 2023 - 08:48:13
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Marking World Day against the Death Penalty on Tuesday, the European Union (EU) and the Council [...] Full text...
26 march 2022 - 13:22:44
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Members of the Libyan "Haraket Attenwir" (Enlightenment Movement) have been detained on the orders of Libya's [...] Full text...
19 october 2020 - 23:21:26
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Human Right Watch (HRW), a rights non-governmental organisation, Monday called on the Mauritanian government to drop [...] Full text...
01 august 2020 - 15:21:26
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The human rights organization, Human Right Watch (HRW), on Saturday urged the Mauritanian President, Mohamed Cheikh [...] Full text...
14 may 2020 - 10:42:22
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisian security units on Wednesday arrested a 29-year-old Takfiri in Hammamet, 80 km southeast of Tunis, [...] Full text...
18 january 2019 - 05:04:30
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Mauritanian authorities used a litany of harsh and overbroad laws on terrorism, cybercrime, apostasy, and criminal [...] Full text...
21 september 2018 - 08:17:08
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – A Mauritanian criminal court has charged an activist with incitement to violence and racial hatred for [...] Full text...
08 may 2018 - 18:58:09
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A group of UN human rights experts on Tuesday expressed grave concerns about the continued detention [...] Full text...
12 february 2018 - 15:32:43
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania’s human rights defenders face repression when they raise the country’s most sensitive social issues, Human [...] Full text...
05 december 2017 - 07:12:05
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday asked Mauritanian parliamentarians to reject a new draft law that [...] Full text...
07 november 2017 - 07:11:36
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania must immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender Mohamed Mkhaïtir, who has been sentenced to [...] Full text...
24 february 2017 - 12:04:44
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Human rights group Amnesty International says the human rights situation in Mauritanian has "deteriorated" with repressive [...] Full text...
28 december 2016 - 16:41:51
New York, US (PANA) - A United Nations human rights expert on freedom of religion or belief has welcomed the [...] Full text...
26 december 2016 - 07:50:37
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A human rights group, Human Rights Watch, says Libyan authorities should ensure the safety of and [...] Full text...
26 april 2016 - 18:27:16
New York, US (PANA) - UN human rights office (UNHCR) on Tuesday deplored the
confirmation of the death sentence for apostasy [...] Full text...
20 april 2016 - 17:57:29
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Mauritania must quash the death sentence handed down to a blogger for apostasy and release [...] Full text...
22 december 2015 - 14:36:46
New York, US (PANA) - The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday condemned the Sudanese government for [...] Full text...
03 march 2015 - 14:39:07
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian civil society group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has sued Minister of Finance [...] Full text...
14 october 2014 - 14:11:43
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to [...] Full text...
24 july 2014 - 17:56:12
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union (EU) on Thursday commended the Sudanese government for allowing the cleared of apostasy [...] Full text...
03 july 2014 - 18:23:47
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, says the death penalty has no
place in the 21st century, [...] Full text...
25 june 2014 - 20:01:57
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the charges d'affaires of the United States of America and [...] Full text...
24 june 2014 - 17:34:10
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union (EU) on Tuesday commended the acquittal and subsequent release of a Sudanese woman, [...] Full text...
24 june 2014 - 10:03:34
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has welcomed the decision by the Sudanese Appeals Court to order the release [...] Full text...
23 june 2014 - 16:40:00
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese court of Appeal on Monday ordered the immediate release of the Sudanese lady sentenced [...] Full text...
17 june 2014 - 15:31:03
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese Islamist opposition party surprised observers on Tuesday when it said it was against the [...] Full text...
14 june 2014 - 15:50:05
New York, US (PANA) - The UN human rights office has urged Mauritania to protect prominent human rights activist Aminetou [...] Full text...
11 june 2014 - 12:47:45
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union (EU) has called on the Sudanese government to revoke what it described as [...] Full text...
09 june 2014 - 18:14:50
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – Several dozens of women on Monday demonstrated around the Mauritanian Presidential Palace in protest against calls [...] Full text...
08 june 2014 - 14:24:58
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Human rights organizations in Mauritania have condemned the ''fatwa'' issued against one of their members, Aminetou [...] Full text...
03 june 2014 - 11:13:16
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has strongly condemned what it termed the intervention by British [...] Full text...
29 may 2014 - 10:34:55
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - The Human Rights Committee of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined in [...] Full text...
29 may 2014 - 10:09:06
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy has given birth to a healthy [...] Full text...
23 may 2014 - 16:36:38
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Lawyers have confirmed to Amnesty International that an appeal has been lodged against the conviction of [...] Full text...
20 may 2014 - 14:18:32
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese presidency has warned the media in the country against any "mishandling of issues [...] Full text...
18 may 2014 - 15:59:01
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union has expressed dismay at the sentence to flogging and death against a young [...] Full text...
16 may 2014 - 19:01:29
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's parliamentary speaker has said the lady tried and found guilty of apostasy could appeal the [...] Full text...
13 may 2014 - 13:38:33
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese man barely escaped death by hanging when he renounced apostasy at the last moment [...] Full text...
07 january 2014 - 12:17:59
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Twenty-eight-year-old Mauritanian Cheikh Ould Mohamed M’Kheitir has been arrested for publishing blasphemous statements about Prophet [...] Full text...
25 february 2010 - 23:20:00
Benghazi- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan leader, Moammar Gaddafi, on Thursday said P rophet Mohammed did not advocate Shiism, Sunnism [...] Full text...