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The Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Friday convicted oil company Trafigura, its former executive and two co-defendants for bribing an Angolan public official to obtain trade contracts. The trial level judgement, delivered by judges David Bouverat, Stephan Zenger and Maric Demont, found three of the defendants guilty of bribery, under article 322 of the Swiss [...]

Five government critics in Angola arbitrarily imprisoned for over a year have been released, Amnesty International reported on Tuesday. Celebrating the release of the wrongfully detained critics, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for East and Southern Africa, Sarah Jackson, noted, “These five people should never have been locked up. Authorities arrested them solely for exercising [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, commenced hearings on the obligations of states concerning climate change on Monday. The oral proceedings are scheduled from Monday, December 2, to Friday, December 13, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. The request for an advisory opinion from the [...]

Amnesty International urged Angola authorities on Wednesday to hold police officers accountable for injuring and killing people during protests between November 2020 and June 2023. The organization has also lamented the delay of justice for the victims of human rights violations. A report published by Amnesty International uncovered the use of excessive and unnecessary force [...]

The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) announced Monday that the trial date for Roger Lumbala has been set. The former Congolese warlord will stand trial in Paris from November 17 to December 19 2025. He has been accused of complicity in and conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity, which allegedly took place during between 2002-2003. [...]

Amnesty International urges the international community on Monday to hold the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi, accountable for violations of human rights. The group accused the DRC president of “ignoring the continuing deterioration of human rights under his own government” in his latest speech to the UN General Assembly [...]

Amnesty International on Monday urged Angola authorities to immediately release four activists who have been wrongfully detained for a year. Amnesty accused the authorities of refusing medical care to the four men. The four activists, Adolfo Campos, Abraão Pedro Santos, Gilson Morreira, and Hermenegildo Victor José, were arrested on September 16, 2023, in Luanda before [...]

Amnesty International urged Angola authorities to immediately release Angolan TikToker Ana da Silva Miguel, also known as Neth Nahara, on Tuesday. Amnesty International said Neth Nahara was arbitrarily detained and condemned Neth Nahara’s conviction of committing an outrage against the state, its symbols and bodies under article 333 of Angola’s penal code as absurd. Amnesty [...]

Portugal’s Parliament rejected on Wednesday a bid proposed by the far-right party Chega to charge the country’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa with treason over his support for reparation to former Portuguese colonies for slavery and mistreatment during colonization. The controversy dates back to April 2023 when President Marcelo de Sousa publically declared that Portugal has [...]

A class action complaint filed this week accuses New York prison officials of holding disabled inmates in solitary confinement in violation of state law. Solitary confinement has been a core feature of the US penal system since the 18th century — dating back to the earliest state prisons, where the inmates seen as most depraved [...]