A week after conceding defeat to Adama Barrow in the 2016 presidential election, Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s outgoing President, retracted his support of the results. On December 12, 2016, The Gambian Bar Association (GBA), a membership group of legal practitioners based in The Gambia, issued a statement condemning President Jammeh’s rejection of the election results…
On December 4, 2016, Venezuelan democracy activists initiated a sit-in at St. Peter’s Square in Rome, Italy, and urged Vatican representatives to support the release of Venezuela’s 108 political prisoners. Lilian Tintori, wife of imprisoned Leopoldo Lopez, her mother-in-law Antonieta Lopez, and Mitzy Capriles, wife of the jailed mayor Antonio Ledezma, were among several demonstrators…
Magnitsky Laws Around the World Support Human Rights Leaders in Europe and the United States are introducing new laws to hold foreign human rights abusers and corrupt officials accountable for their crimes. The laws are named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who was murdered for exposing a $230-million corruption scheme in his home country.…
Magnitsky Laws Around the World Support Human Rights Leaders in Europe and the United States are introducing new laws to hold foreign human rights abusers and corrupt officials accountable for their crimes. The laws are named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who was murdered for exposing a $230-million corruption scheme in his home country.…