Category: Human rights defenders

  • Resumption of the Chebeya affair: ASF hopes for a victory for the truth

    Resumption of the Chebeya affair: ASF hopes for a victory for the truth

    Kinshasa/Brussels, 17 July 2012 – Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) hopes that the continuation of the Chebeya trial will offer a new opportunity to reveal the truth, within the framework of a fair trial.

  • ASF supports Human Rights Defenders in five African countries

    ASF supports Human Rights Defenders in five African countries

    Nairobi, Kenya – Lawyers and other human rights defenders (HRDs) are often directly targeted when they speak out against local authorities who are at times responsible for human rights violations.

  • The OLUCOME Trial: a verdict but no truth

    The OLUCOME Trial: a verdict but no truth

    Bujumbura/Brussels, June 7th, 2012- Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) believes that the verdict announced 22May does not reflect the whole truth surrounding the murder of Ernest Manirumva, Vice President of the Burundian civil society group, Anti-corruption and Economic Malpractice Observatory (Observatoire de Lutte contre la Corruption et les Malversations Économiques [OLUCOME]).

  • “The Chebeya affair”: Justice on the big screen

    “The Chebeya affair”: Justice on the big screen

    Upon release of the documentary The Cheyeba affair. Duty of Justice today in Belgian theaters, Avocats Sans Frontières reemphasises the need for impartial justice in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  • Verdict Chebeya case : the Congolese justice at a crossroad

    Brussels, 24 June 2011 – For Avocats Sans Frontières, that represents the brothers and sisters of the human rights activist Floribert Chebeya, the verdict reached by the Congolese Military Court on 23 June 2011 brings only few answers to the circumstances of the murder of Chebeya on 1 June 2010 and the disappearance of his…