By Shout-Africa.com Correspondent from Accra, Ghana – Accroding to reliable source closed to shout-africa.com , drama unfolded at a Cape Coast Circuit Court on Tuesday when relatives of 47 refugees from the Budumburam Refugee Camp who were arrested on Sunday started weeping in the courtroom immediately the presiding judge, Madam Florence Otoo, remanded them into prison custody to re-appear on March 1, 2011. The 47 refugees pleaded not guilty to the charge of causing riot and conspiracy. Prosecution said the police were informed about the situation and quickly moved in to ensure peace and order. Prosecution further said although there... Continue Reading
By Staff Reporter – JOHANNESBURG – South African Baha’is are gravely concerned for the welfare and safety of Iran’s seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders who have been transferred to more brutal sections of their prison complex. The seven Baha’i leaders were initially arrested in 2008 and held at Tehran’s Evin prison for 20 months without charges. They were then accused of espionage and organizing religiously activities illegally among other allegations. All charges were denied. After a brief trial, they were sentenced to 10 years in prison. The 7 women and men were then sent to Gohardasht prison, which is infamous for... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – Every day journalists expose fraud and corruption – in local organisations, corporations and high political office and occasionally they earn rebuke from politicians whose noses have been put out of joint. However, when Charles Atangana, a leading Cameroonian journalist, did so, he was set upon by President Biya’s security forces, arrested, stripped naked, beaten up and detained for 40 days. He was locked in a flooded cell and tortured to try to force him to reveal his sources. He refused. Suffering from malnutrition, chronic diarrhoea and food poisoning Charles managed to persuade his captors to take... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent – The Special Criminal Court yesterday convicted and sentenced to death, one Sheriff Aba Hydara of Nuimi Bakalarr village in the North Bank Region, for the murder of his wife. The convict, believed to be an 81-year-old man, was found guilty of the murder of his wife and for attempted murder. During one of the proceedings in his trial, Sheriff Aba Hydara admitted, before an open court, to shooting his wife with three bullets in order, “to put an end” to his wife’s control of his garden. “Anytime I asked my wife about the proceeds of the... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – BLANTYRE, Malawi (AFP) – Rwanda’s refugees minister General Marcel Gatsinzi has called on some 2,000 refugees in Malawi to come home, saying the country had returned to peace and stability, local media said on Sunday. Malawi’s Sunday Times quoted Rwanda’s refugees minister saying.”Please return home. There is peace in Rwanda, there is security in Rwanda.” Gatsinzi told the refugees not to fear “wrong information” telling them they would be prosecuted for genocide if they returned home. He said such information was being spread by “fugitive Rwandans who committed crimes during the genocide and are on the... Continue Reading
