Kenyan activist detained after raid by 'masked' group
Prominent Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has been detained by police on charges of inciting violence after six masked individuals forcibly took him from his home, his wife…
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Fresh faces in Mozambique's poll as independence era leaders bow out
Mozambique is set for a watershed election that will see a change of the presidential guard, with the era of leaders who forged their careers in the trenches of the independence war…
Palestinian, Filipino and Mozambican activists and a London research agency given human rights award
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Right Livelihood Award was awarded Thursday to three activists from the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Mozambique and to a U.K. pioneering research…
No bail for activists kicked off Zimbabwe plane
Three Zimbabwean activists who were arrested in dramatic fashion after being forced off an aeroplane last month have been denied bail, on the eve of a high-profile international summit in…
Veteran human rights advocate freed in swap says Russia is sliding back toward Stalinist times
BERLIN (AP) — A human rights activist since the 1980s, Oleg Orlov thought Russia had turned a corner when the Soviet Union collapsed and a democratically elected president became leader.…