Nicole Fritz

Focus areas Focus countries International Criminal Justice South Africa

NEWS RELEASE: SETBACK FOR INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AS COURT RULES THAT SUSPECTED WAR CRIMINAL ENTITLED TO REFUGEE STATUS

Pretoria: On Friday, 26 September 2014, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled that Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa is entitled to refugee status in South Africa, despite a challenge brought by the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) on the basis that his suspected involvement…

Nicole FritzSep 29, 2014

Focus areas Focus countries International Criminal Justice

SALC IN THE NEWS: QUIET DEATH OF AN IMPORTANT SADC INSTITUTION

President Jacob Zuma is party to a regional pact that makes the application of law discriminatory. In the pomp and ceremony surrounding the 34th Southern African Development Community summit of heads of state and government – the annual gathering of the region’s big (and often old) men – few noticed…

Nicole FritzAug 29, 2014

Focus areas Focus countries International Criminal Justice South Africa

SALC in the News: Israeli War Tactics Ignore Children’s Innocence

The Sunday Independent To insist, as Israel does, that the people of Gaza have the power themselves to end their suffering, when one in five of those dead is a child, is callously disingenuous, writes Nicole Fritz. Let’s assume that Hamas is as wholly atrocious as Israel maintains it is.…

Nicole FritzJul 28, 2014

Focus areas International Criminal Justice

SALC in the News: African Union Gives Immunity to Heads of State by Subterfuge

Business Day Live JUST an ordinary piece of business — an announcement at the end of the African Union’s (AU’s) recent summit of heads of state and government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, that it had voted to adopt the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the…

Nicole FritzJul 15, 2014

Focus areas Focus countries International Criminal Justice

SALC in the News: SA Accused of ‘Abusing’ Courts After Fresh Torture Case Appeal

SW Radio Africa The South African authorities have been accused of abusing the country’s court processes, after filing another appeal against a landmark order to probe crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe. Last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a court order from 2012 that compelled the prosecuting authorities…

Nicole FritzJan 16, 2014

Articles and Opinions Focus areas Focus countries International Criminal Justice South Africa

SALC IN THE NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA CAUSES BLUSHES IN HANDLING OF POLICY ON SYRIA

Nicole Fritz The Business Day PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma, addressing a Commonwealth parliamentary conference earlier this month, called on delegates not to remain silent “when one country is being bombed to ashes before our eyes”. It was plain he was referring to Syria: not so clear was the party he believed…

Nicole FritzSep 16, 2013

Freedom of Expression, Assembly and Association News Zimbabwe

SALC CALLS ON ZIMBABWE TO RESPECT POLITICAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING ARREST OF RIGHTS LAWYER AND PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE ARNOLD TSUNGA

Johannesburg: The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) condemns the arrest of MDC parliamentary candidate Arnold Tsunga and 50 supporters on 20 July 2013, and the banning of a political rally in Harare. The disruption and denial by Zimbabwean police of peaceful political gatherings; the arbitrary arrest of electoral candidates; and the…

Nicole FritzJul 15, 2013

Focus areas Focus countries Freedom of Expression, Assembly and Association Zimbabwe

SALC Writes To Zambian President SATA Expressing Concern at the Targeting of Independent Journalists

SALC has written to Zambian President Sata expressing its concern at the targeting of journalists allegedly operating the Zambian Watchdog online news publication. Thomas Zganbo and Clayson Hamasaka have been charged with sedition and/or insulting the President. These types of laws, and their application in cases of this sort, have…

Nicole FritzJul 12, 2013

Focus areas Focus countries Rule of Law South Africa

SALC IN THE NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA NOT THE PRETTIEST RULE-OF-LAW COUNTRY AT THE BALL

Ahead of the opening of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York next week, heads of state and government will convene for a meeting on the “rule of law at the national and international levels”. This is the first time the general assembly holds such a meeting exclusively…

Nicole FritzSep 22, 2012

Focus areas Focus countries International Criminal Justice Rule of Law Zimbabwe

SALC IN THE NEWS: WE ARE THE BEST HOPE FOR TORTURE VICTIMS IN ZIMBABWE

LAST week, the North Gauteng High Court ruled that SA’s investigating and prosecuting authorities must investigate systematic torture amounting to crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe. Those investigations may result in prosecutions and currently hold the best chance of Zimbabwean officials who are responsible for severe human rights abuses facing…

Nicole FritzMay 16, 2012