15 october 2024 - 12:49:40
Rubavu, Western Rwanda (PANA) – Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged the authorities in Rwanda to stop subjecting people to [...] Full text...
06 august 2024 - 06:09:31
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Reports of alleged torture and sexual violence in Israel’s Sde Teiman prison represent “the tip of [...] Full text...
29 december 2023 - 05:50:27
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Bulldozers in refugee camps, detainees stripped naked and spat at, farmers robbed of their harvest: against [...] Full text...
15 april 2023 - 14:43:40
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Justice in the Government of National Unity, Halima Ibrahim Abderrahman, has urged [...] Full text...
20 february 2023 - 13:51:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The security authorities in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have released Abdallah Mansour, a security and media [...] Full text...
20 january 2023 - 18:13:43
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Three people have just been imprisoned following the escape of a detainee admitted for treatment at [...] Full text...
19 december 2022 - 13:31:07
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, says "an unrelenting crisis of impunity in Libya" has enabled fighters [...] Full text...
21 october 2022 - 14:24:55
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Two police officers from the Mizdah Security Directorate, about 150 km south of Tripoli, were injured [...] Full text...
20 september 2022 - 19:47:11
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Interior Ministry of the Interim National Unity Government Tuesday announced the reception of a Libyan [...] Full text...
19 april 2022 - 11:26:41
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Internal Security Agency (ISA), a collection of powerful armed groups operating in areas under the [...] Full text...
23 february 2022 - 14:12:38
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian health authorities announced on Wednesday the death of a female detainee, Tuesday, in hospital, following [...] Full text...
21 august 2021 - 19:39:30
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 17 new prisoners from the western region of Libya, who were detained in [...] Full text...
07 august 2021 - 05:28:56
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Rapidly spreading violence in Mali is threatening the State’s very survival, the UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the [...] Full text...
20 july 2021 - 05:24:48
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Morocco has repatriated its citizen who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility, [...] Full text...
01 march 2021 - 08:15:22
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), acting without lawful authority, arbitrarily [...] Full text...
09 january 2021 - 16:54:13
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Co-Chairs of the Security Working Group (SWG) for Libya has renewed their call on all [...] Full text...
28 september 2020 - 22:33:15
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Amnesty International (AI) says it has carried out an investigation which has exposed details about [...] Full text...
05 september 2020 - 16:38:25
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The repatriation this week of a self-proclaimed 'hero’ of the famous movie 'Hotel Rwanda', was highlighted [...] Full text...
01 july 2020 - 17:20:57
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Statistics Mauritius (SM), a governmental body, on Wednesday said the number of criminal cases lodged in [...] Full text...
17 june 2020 - 13:23:08
Paris, France (PANA) - The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has called on the authorities of Cameroon to investigate the [...] Full text...
27 may 2020 - 07:52:14
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Global human rights group, Amnesty International, on Wednesday accused the Nigerian military of subjecting children in [...] Full text...
22 may 2020 - 16:52:40
Paris, France (PANA) - The NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Friday that it had referred Amadou Vamoulké, the [...] Full text...
13 may 2020 - 22:52:20
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Twelve of 25 people detained here Monday night for terrorism in Tanwalbougou were found dead [...] Full text...
06 may 2020 - 17:40:22
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkina Faso Movement for Human and Peoples' Rights (MBDHP), which on Wednesday demanded light [...] Full text...
19 april 2020 - 13:33:10
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Overcrowded and unsanitary prisons in Democratic Republic of Congo are at grave risk of COVID-19 [...] Full text...
07 april 2020 - 23:42:38
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Tuesday called on prison authorities around the world [...] Full text...
02 january 2020 - 21:24:16
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza Thursday pardoned a large number of prisoners on the occasion of his [...] Full text...
19 october 2019 - 18:21:19
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Congo's National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH) on Friday asked the authorities in Brazzaville to enhance [...] Full text...
02 october 2019 - 08:44:39
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - A human rights watchdog said on Wednesday that some Malian military units are using a method [...] Full text...
11 september 2019 - 09:48:54
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian military has arbitrarily detained thousands of children in degrading and inhuman conditions for suspected involvement [...] Full text...
18 june 2019 - 12:48:24
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, has suspended his official visit to Comoros, expressing regrets [...] Full text...
18 june 2019 - 04:57:20
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Human rights groups have expressed shock at the death in custody on Monday of former Egyptian [...] Full text...
13 june 2019 - 18:06:30
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW), a human rights NGO, Thursday urged the Mauritanian authorities to "immediately issue [...] Full text...
04 june 2019 - 18:18:45
Lome, Togo (PANA) - Togolese authorities have said they have blocked an attempted jail break in Tsévié prison, a town [...] Full text...
28 may 2019 - 18:55:24
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegalese President Macky Sall said on Tuesday in Dakar that he does not have the power [...] Full text...
28 may 2019 - 17:40:32
Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - A 26-year-old man, suspected of kidnapping relatives in Calheta, São Miguel, Santiago Island, in August [...] Full text...
01 may 2019 - 12:57:51
Paris, France (PANA) – Sexual violence is committed by security agents and detainees against children and women in two high [...] Full text...
11 april 2019 - 11:41:47
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- Sudan's National Intelligence and Security (NISS) on Thursday announced all political detainees have been set free.
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29 march 2019 - 12:27:28
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Apartheid-era policeman Joao Jan Rodrigues is seeking to use an amnesty clause introduced by [...] Full text...
15 march 2019 - 17:30:03
Paris, France (PANA) – The Bahraini opposition leader, Ebrahim Sharif, was sentenced by a court in his country to six [...] Full text...
07 december 2018 - 07:47:27
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former police officer Joao Rodrigues could be setting a precedent for victims of apartheid [...] Full text...
25 september 2018 - 11:18:27
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the arrests of nearly 3,000 youths in Ethiopia [...] Full text...
27 april 2018 - 05:54:06
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday expressed the hope that Ethiopia continues its [...] Full text...
09 april 2018 - 06:40:46
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday asked the government of Mali to urgently conduct credible investigations [...] Full text...
22 february 2018 - 07:30:44
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Dozens of prominent activists remain in detention in Sudan, despite the release of more than 50 [...] Full text...
06 september 2017 - 07:19:51
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s regular police and National Security officers routinely torture political detainees [...] Full text...
20 july 2017 - 05:33:32
Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) - Hundreds of people in Cameroon accused of supporting Boko Haram, often without evidence, are being brutally [...] Full text...
27 october 2016 - 16:21:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has confirmed that it will open an inquest [...] Full text...
04 october 2016 - 16:36:32
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Economic Community of West Africa State (ECOWAS) Court Tuesday ordered the Nigerian government to immediately [...] Full text...
14 april 2016 - 09:30:20
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth told Parliament on Wednesday night that as at 7 April [...] Full text...
04 april 2016 - 20:32:51
Washington, D.C., US (PANA) - The West African state of Senegal has offered two Libyan former Guantanamo Bay detainees humanitarian [...] Full text...
16 december 2015 - 06:54:24
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Egypt is second only to China as the world’s worst jailer of journalists in [...] Full text...
15 march 2015 - 18:54:54
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – At least 3,000 people took to the streets of the Mauritian capital, Port-Louis, Sunday to denounce [...] Full text...
16 february 2015 - 18:36:01
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Police has issued a warrant for the arrest of Nandanee Soornack, a girlfriend of [...] Full text...
06 february 2015 - 18:18:29
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Former Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam was arrested by the Police late Friday at his [...] Full text...
16 september 2014 - 12:42:21
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese authorities have freed leader of the Sudanese Congress Party (SCP) Ibrahim Al-Sheikh from more [...] Full text...
25 august 2014 - 12:48:41
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A popular human rights activist in Burundi, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, clocked 100 days in detention on [...] Full text...
21 august 2014 - 18:35:04
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - After a month in detention, Antonio Muchanga, official spokesperson of Mozambican opposition RENAMO party, was set [...] Full text...
18 july 2014 - 21:22:48
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have collected some 19,000 signatures for a petition demanding the release of [...] Full text...
26 may 2014 - 22:20:52
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – A police officer, belonging to the Department for the Protection of Diplomatic Missions, was shot dead [...] Full text...
13 may 2014 - 22:48:16
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The Libyan government has reassured the diplomatic missions in the country that it would step up [...] Full text...
17 december 2013 - 18:55:50
Beau-Bassin, Mauritius (PANA) – About 20 South African detainees presently serving their sentences in Mauritius, together with some Mauritians, on [...] Full text...
09 october 2013 - 13:09:14
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the US to ensure that a terrorism suspect apprehended [...] Full text...
02 april 2013 - 22:43:13
Paris, France (PANA) – A delegation from the committee supporting French-Cameroonian, Thierry-Michel Atangana, who has been imprisoned since 1997 in [...] Full text...
13 march 2013 - 17:56:39
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD), which featured outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice [...] Full text...
26 february 2013 - 08:16:50
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on the Sudanese authorities to release or [...] Full text...
19 december 2012 - 15:54:40
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - President Mwai Kibaki bid farewell to parliament Wednesday after nearly 50 years of service, the longest [...] Full text...
16 november 2012 - 11:14:57
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - A Tunisian Islamist held in custody for alleged involvement in an attack on the U.S. Embassy [...] Full text...
19 october 2011 - 17:42:18
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga Wednesday engaged each other in a rare public [...] Full text...
28 august 2011 - 12:29:12
Khartoum, Sudan ( PANA) - Sudan's President Omar Bashir has ordered the release of all journalists detained for political reasons [...] Full text...
11 may 2011 - 12:12:31
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Ugandan opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, was ejected from an Entebbe-bound Kenya Airways flight Wednesday, leading to [...] Full text...
04 march 2011 - 16:06:05
New York, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is concerned about the safety of a Cameroonian editor [...] Full text...
01 september 2010 - 19:29:00
Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya Tuesday set freed 37 Islamist movement members who have renounced the use of violence, PANA [...] Full text...
23 april 2010 - 23:23:00
Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroonian Communication minister, Issa Tchirouma Ba kary, on Friday ordered an autopsy and investigation into the [...] Full text...
23 march 2010 - 22:42:00
Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The chairman of Gaddafi's Foundation for Development (GFD), Seif Ul-Islam Mouammar Gaddafi, on Tuesday announced the [...] Full text...
29 january 2010 - 16:20:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopian opposition party Unity for Democracy an d Justice (UDJ) Friday urged African leaders to [...] Full text...
11 december 2009 - 16:20:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenyan government has asked for the return of a 'ter ror suspect', Abdulmalik Mohammed, who [...] Full text...
01 october 2009 - 21:04:00
N'Djamena- Chad (PANA) -- The tribunal in N'Djamena on Thursday ordered the Netwo rk of Human Rights Association in Chad [...] Full text...
17 september 2009 - 19:31:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Human Rights Watch (HRW) Thursday scoffed at an agreement signed between the Ethiopian government [...] Full text...
07 august 2009 - 22:23:00
N'Djamena- Chad (PANA) â" Human rights groups are -calling for the restoration o f the rights of Mohammed Al-Gharani, the [...] Full text...
07 april 2009 - 18:14:00
Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (IC RC) in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on Tuesday arranged for [...] Full text...
20 march 2009 - 17:50:00
Maputo- Mozambique (PANA) -- Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique’s former rebel movement, Renamo, has demanded the resignation of Interior Minister [...] Full text...
23 february 2009 - 18:12:00
Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopian nationals remained mute following the release of Binyam Mohammed, the Ethiopia-born British, who was [...] Full text...
23 february 2009 - 16:33:00
Bay Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Ethiopian nationals remained mute following the release of Binyam Mohammed, the Ethiopia-born British, who [...] Full text...