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Case Law
15 cases across 3 courts
15 cases
COMMUNICATION 461/13 | 2022-08-02
This document outlines the complaint of journalists Eskinder Nega Fenta and Reeyot Alemu, who were arrested and imprisoned in Ethiopia for publishing articles critical of the government. They were charged under...
Citation pending | 2019-11-28
This court order addresses an application by Kipsang Kilel and others, members of the Ogiek Community, to join the reparations proceedings of a case previously decided against the Republic of Kenya regarding the Ogiek...
[2018] ACHPR 135 | 2018-04-27
This document details the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights' decision on a complaint against Eritrea regarding the alleged unlawful, incommunicado detention of journalist Dawit Isaak since 2001. It...
[2015] ACHPR 5 | 2015-08-08
Human Rights Council and co-complainant NGOs filed a complaint against Ethiopia after the state's Charities and Societies Agency froze the Council's assets. The asset freeze occurred following the adoption of a new law...
[2010] ACHPR 106 | 2010-05-26
Kenneth Good, an Australian professor, was expelled from Botswana after co-authoring an article critical of the government, and his domestic legal challenges to this decision were unsuccessful. Subsequently, a...
333/06 | 2010-05-26
The Southern Africa Human Rights NGO Network and other organizations filed a complaint against Tanzania with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. They allege that the Tanzanian Court of Appeal's...
[2009] ACHPR 103 | 2009-11-25
The complainant alleges that 14,000 Ethiopian refugees in Sudan, previously granted asylum, faced forced repatriation and the loss of their refugee status and associated rights. This action followed an agreement...
[2009] ACHPR 97 | 2009-04-03
Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) challenged a new media law that required them to register with a state commission, but the Supreme Court declined to hear their constitutional claim because ANZ had not complied...
[2006] ACHPR 73 | 2006-05-25
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum alleged systematic political violence and human rights abuses by supporters of the ruling ZANU (PF) party, often condoned by officials, following a 2000 constitutional referendum and...
Comm. 233/99 | 2003-05-29
This judgment addresses a complaint that during the 1998 armed conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia, both countries expelled or deported thousands of each other's nationals. The complaint alleges widespread human...
Communication No. 204/97 | 2001-05-07
The Mouvement Burkinabe des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples (MBDHP) filed a complaint against Burkina Faso, alleging a series of unaddressed human rights violations and injustices, particularly concerning the...
[2000] ACHPR 23 | 2000-11-06
Huri-Laws filed a communication alleging that the Nigerian government subjected the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) and its members to continuous harassment, including arbitrary arrests, detentions, denial of...
Comm. 25/89, 47/90, 56/91, 100/93 | 1996-04-04
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights considered multiple complaints alleging widespread human rights violations in Zaire, including torture, arbitrary detention, and suppression of various freedoms. The...
[1995] ACHPR 9 | 1995-03-22
The complainant alleged illegal detention, torture, and harassment of his family due to the misuse of colonial-era laws. The human rights commission declared the complaint inadmissible because the alleged events...
Comm. 7/88 | 1988-10-26
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights declared a communication alleging false imprisonment and torture by the Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners against Bahrain inadmissible. This was...