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Human rights cases
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Human rights cases
26/05/2014
Yemeni independent MP and newspaper proprietor Ahmed Saif Hashed has been viciously attacked, threatened and had his right to freedom of expression violated since being elected to parliament in 2003.
Human rights cases
26/05/2014
Eritrean MP Hamad Hamid Hamad has been held incommunicado without trial since 2001, one of a group of 11 seized after criticizing the country’s president, Isais Afwerki.
Human rights cases
26/05/2014
Eritrean MP Petros Solomon has been held incommunicado without trial since 2001, one of a group of 11 seized after criticizing the country’s president, Isaias Afwerki. Petros Solomon was a commander and intelligence chief during Eritrea’s struggle for independence from
Human rights cases
26/05/2014
Eritrean MP Saleh Kekiya has been held incommunicado without trial since 2001, one of a group of 11 seized after criticizing the country’s president, Isaias Afwerki.
Human rights cases
26/05/2014
Leonard Hitimana vanished without trace in April 2003. Despite repeated IPU calls, a thorough investigation by Rwandan authorities into the MP’s disappearance has yet to take place. Rwandan MP and doctor Leonard Hitimana disappeared from the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on
Human rights cases
26/05/2014
Eritrean MP Estifanos Seyoum has been held incommunicado without trial since 2001, one of a group of 11 seized after criticizing the country’s president, Isaias Afwerki.