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Festival Cinéma et droits humains 2018 avec Amnesty International France

Après une très belle 8ème édition l’année dernière à laquelle nous avions assisté, l’édition 2018 du Festival Cinéma et droits humains est de retour au cinéma Le Reflet Médicis du 7 au 13 novembre 2018. L’événement est organisé par les bénévoles...

News Digest (Sep. 01, 2018): Amin Mekki Madani dies, Ahmed Al-Dai Bushara Joudah, Peter Biar Ajak, Darfur United, Bobi Wine…

This is our last Weekly News Digest, a selected compilation of recent stories we publish each Saturday during Summertime. Today: Sudanese human rights defender Dr Amin Mekki Madani has died; Darfur United Men’s Team in Los Angeles; El Jareeda and El Tayyar newspapers confiscated;...

News Digest (Aug. 4, 2018): Russian soldiers in CAR, Violence in Kasaï, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Ebola, Haiti, Meryam Joobeur…

This is our first Weekly News Digest of August, it is a selected compilation of recent stories we publish each Saturday during Summertime. Today: the testinomy of Abdelhamid Yousif Ismail Adam; Russian soldiers in CAR/Darfur; Jean-Pierre Bemba to run for president December. En français:...

Sudanese activist Hisham Ali deported from Saudi Arabia detained in Khartoum

Last week, Radio Dabanga reported that Sudanese activist Hisham Ali who was deported from Saudi Arabia, has been detained in Khartoum since May 29. Hisham Ali has been a political activist for many years, and in 2013 he exposed the Sudanese government corruption. He also wrote about...

International Criminal Court acquits DR Congo’s former vice president Bemba on appeal

The former Congolese vice-president, Jean-Pierre Bemba, has had his convictions for war crimes and crimes against humanity overturned. Bemba was found guilty in 2016 of crimes committed in the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) from 2002 to 2003. We can read the official...

Noura Hussein: Sign the Petition and Send the message by Amnesty International

Earlier this week we invited you to sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org. A few days have past and many people have already shown their support to the 19-year-old Noura Hussein, sentenced to death by hanging because she killed our husband in self-defense after...

Chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria: investigation and retaliation

On April 7, 2018 reports began emerging of alleged chemical attacks on the city of Douma, the last rebel-held town in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta. Rescuers and medics say that more than 80 people have died. Two weeks after the suspected chemical attack, the United States, France and...

‘Guantánamo Kid’ : rencontres avec les auteurs et une collecte de fonds

Le mois dernier nous vous avons présenté la bande-dessinée ‘Guantánamo Kid, l’histoire de vraie de Mohammed El-Gorani’ de Jérôme Tubiana, réalisée avec le dessinateur Alexandre Franc avec le soutien d’Amnesty International, et sortie le mois dernier chez Dargaud. Nous vous...

La bande-dessinée ‘Guantánamo Kid, l’histoire de vraie de Mohammed El-Gorani’ de Jérôme Tubiana

Jérôme Tubiana est journaliste et chercheur indépendant, spécialiste du Soudan et du Tchad, que nous évoquons régulièrement sur le MagkaSama Project. Il était notre invité du panel d’experts lors de la soirée que nous avons organisée en décembre 2016 pour la première...

Mohammed bin Salman called out about jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

Last year Ensaf Haidar addressed Saudi Arabia at U.N human Rights Council regarding her husband, convicted on several charges in 2013 and sentenced to 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison for using his liberal blog to criticize Saudi Arabia’s clerics. On January, Haidar was in France and...