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Lesotho: Challenging the offence of criminal defamation Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesLesotho

Lesotho: Challenging the offence of criminal defamation

SALC supported a case challenging the constitutionality of the offence of criminal defamation. On 6 July 2016, Basildon Peta was charged with the crime of defamation in contravention of section…
Staff Writer
21 May 2018
Civil society deeply concerned about attack on Mozambican human rights defender and threats to press freedom in Mozambique Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights NewsMozambique

Civil society deeply concerned about attack on Mozambican human rights defender and threats to press freedom in Mozambique

It is with sadness that the undersigned civil society organisations express deep concern about the attack on Mozambique human rights defender, Ericino de Salema, which took place in Maputo on…
Staff Writer
3 April 2018
Botswana high court
Botswana: Challenge to the offence of sedition BotswanaCivic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed Cases

Botswana: Challenge to the offence of sedition

In September 2014, a warrant of arrest was issued for Botswana journalist, Outsa Makone, charging him with sedition after the publication of an article in the Sunday Standard on 31…
Staff Writer
5 February 2018
Zimbabwe: Challenging the disenfranchisement of Zimbabweans in the diaspora Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Challenging the disenfranchisement of Zimbabweans in the diaspora

Shumba & Others v Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs & Others SALC supported three members of the Zimbabwe Diaspora, represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, who challenged…
Staff Writer
18 January 2018
Zimbabwe: Protecting marginalised groups’ right to assembly Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Protecting marginalised groups’ right to assembly

On 28 November 2017, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe set aside the decision of the High Court of Zimbabwe, in which the High Court refused the Sexual Rights Centre (SRC)…
Staff Writer
28 November 2017
STATEMENT: 61ST ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE’S RIGHTS, BANJUL, THE GAMBIA |1-15 November 2017 Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionSADC

STATEMENT: 61ST ORDINARY SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE’S RIGHTS, BANJUL, THE GAMBIA |1-15 November 2017

SALC is attending the 61st  Ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in Banjul, Republic of the Gambia. The organisation, yesterday, made submissions on freedom of expression in Lesotho and…
Staff Writer
7 November 2017

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