Lagos, July 16.– A Nigerian cleric and spokesman of the Sharibu family has reacted to rumors that Leah Sharibu, the Christian schoolgirl held captive by Boko Haram for refusing to convert to Islam, had given birth to a baby boy fathered by a Boko Haram commander and had subsequently converted to Islam.
Rev. Gideon Para-Mallam, speaking with Aid to the Church in Need, said these must be false claims or a situation of rape and forced conversion.
La Habana, Junio 30.– El régimen de La Habana, a través de su Policía Política, arrestó hoy o les impidió salir de sus domicilios a diez periodistas en La Habana.
La agresión estuvo vinculada a una marcha pacífica convocada por integrantes de la sociedad civil en protesta por la muerte a manos de la policía de un joven de 27 años, Hansel Ernesto Hernández, el día 26 último, en el municipio Guanabacoa.
Además de las agresiones en La Habana, también hubo represión contra periodistas en las provincias de Camagüey y Granma.
A varios también se les suspendió el acceso a Internet.
Former Turkish judge Yavuz Aydin told in an interview last May that most of Turkey’s purged judges and prosecutors were dismissed because they stood their ground, that Turkey’s democratic decline may be irreversible, and that the Turkish government, not the pandemic, will be to blame for any covid-19 deaths among prison inmates in the days ahead.
The Turkish judge purged by President Erdogan now living in exile, addressed the 12th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy (video) and declared, among other facts, about the Turkish coup events and subsequent purge:
Ciudad de México, Feb.17.– Rosario Piedra Ibarra, titular de la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH), en Sesión Consejo Consultivo de la CNDH, dejó entredicho la violación de derechos humanos dentro de la entidad gubernamental.
En sus esfuerzos por mejorar el organismo desde que tomó protesta el 12 de noviembre del 2019 ha encontrado enormes problemas, definiendo a la CNDH como un aparato ineficiente.
Kathmandu, Feb.19.– Data has revealed that the incidents of human rights violation are on the rise in Nepal in recent times.
According to a report entitled "Human Rights Year Book 2020" unveiled by the Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) in the capital on Wednesday, cases of human rights violations have sharply increased in 2019 compared to the previous year. In 2018, a total of 5,110 were reported to be the victim of violation while the figure increased by 1,532 and reached as many as 6,642 in 2019.
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