The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) jointly with the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network (AfricanDefenders) call on the Malawi authorities to immediately release two detained human rights defenders (HRDs) . Gift Trapence and...
Waves of xenophobic violence erupted in targeted attacks on African foreign nationals and their businesses by South African citizens on 1 September. The violence sparked in Pretoria and spread to Johannesburg and surrounding areas. Police have described the acts of violence as purely...
The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) condemns in the strongest possible terms the abduction and torture of a woman human rights defender (WHRD) and comedian Samantha Kureya of Bustop TV in Harare and urges the government of Zimbabwe to carry out a swift, open and...
The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) jointly with the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network (AfricanDefenders) call on the Malawi authorities to immediately investigate the petrol bombing of Timothy Mtambo’s house in Lilongwe in the early hours of...
The Southern African Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) is a sub-regional network that works to protect and promote the rights of HRDS within the sub-region of Southern Africa. It offers rapid and practical support to HRDs facing persecution in Southern Africa. It is...
The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN) has today called on the government of Zimbabwe to immediately fully re-open the internet, to halt the ongoing use of lethal force against unarmed civilians and to recognize and gaurantee the rights of citizens to peaceful protests as...