Ugandan police on Wednesday denied arresting presidential aspirant, Bobi Wine, as he tried to campaign ahead of next month’s tense election, saying instead the singer-turned-MP had been “restrained” and returned home. Wine’s campaign team said the opposition leader and his entire support crew had been arrested in Kalangala, a district near Lake Victoria, while drumming […]

A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed 10 Hong Kong democracy activists for up to three years over a bid by the group to flee the city by speedboat to seek sanctuary in Taiwan. The group were arrested by the Chinese coastguard on August 23 en route to the self-ruled island, which has opened its doors […]

Karima Baloch, a human rights activist from Balochistan, Pakistan, was mysteriously murdered in Toronto, Canada after her abduction. We, the signatory of this urgent appeal, demand from Prime Minister Trudeau to immediately hold an impartial inquiry into the murder of Baloch activist in an Island. The government of Canada must also investigate the possibility of […]

Jonathan Pollard, an American jailed in the US in 1985 for spying for Israel, landed in the Jewish state on Wednesday after Washington released him from parole conditions last month, Israeli media reported. Pollard, 66, served 30 years in prison for giving away classified US documents, and had been confined by parole terms to the […]

Weekend communal clashes in southeast Guinea left more than 20 people dead, a local lawmaker said Tuesday. Regional governor Mohamed Ghare had Sunday spoken of 11 dead but added Tuesday the toll had “evolved” upwards without giving further details. But a lawmaker in the town of Macenta told AFP by telephone: “There are officially 11 […]