Category: Human rights defenders

  • Being a lawyer, a high-risk profession

    Being a lawyer, a high-risk profession

    Whether they are members of civil society organizations, lawyers or media professionals, human rights defenders have a common objective: promote and protect human rights. They are often confronted with attempts to limit their work such as threats, harassment, and sometimes torture or even murder. That is why ASF and the East Africa Law Society are…

  • Chebeya, a landmark trial in danger of stalling

    Chebeya, a landmark trial in danger of stalling

    One year after the start of the Chebeya appeal trial, Avocats Sans Frontières fears the proceedings are stalling. The NGO is calling on the Congolese judicial authorities and the persons implicated in the proceedings to ensure the trial takes place without hindrance or intimidation.

  • 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…