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Saridewi Djamani was handed a death penalty after being convicted of trafficking 30g of heroin in 2018

Saridewi Binte Djamani hanged despite outcry from rights groups including Amnesty International.

A former government minister is investigated for corruption in Ghana. The inquiry comes after Cecilia Abena Dapaah reported her housekeeper for stealing a large sum of money, but prosecutors want to know where the money came from. Also in this edition: at least 30 people have been killed by a…

An Egyptian court has sentenced a rights activist to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019

The UK Government has said its legacy proposals are the best way to deliver for victims of the Troubles.

Banned by many countries, cluster munitions leave unexploded bombs that pose a risk to civilians for decades to come.

On December 28, 2021 single parent Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari was left in despair after he learned that his only child, Amir-Ali, had passed away at a care facility while he was still trapped inside the notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran

Amnesty International has reported that security forces, separatist rebels and ethnic militiamen – from both sides of the country's linguistic divide – have committed "atrocities" in the English-speaking regions of western Cameroon, including executions, torture and rape.

In this edition: Human rights investigators from Amnesty International warn that civilians in Cameroon are suffering sexual, physical and psychological violence as they're targeted by all the main players in an Anglophone separatist crisis that's gripped the country since 2016. Also, Senegal's future looks immediately more stable after President Macky…