Nicole D'Souza

Jan 22, 2025 | jurist.org | Nicole D'Souza

The Australian Federal Police announced they are investigating whether overseas actors or individuals are responsible for an escalation in antisemitic attacks in the country in a statement released on Tuesday.

Jan 16, 2025 | jurist.org | Nicole D'Souza

The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue operation at an abandoned mine where miners, cut off from food and water, had been working illegally. The announcement relayed that the bodies of 78 miners had been retrieved, and a total of 246 “alive illegal miners have been retrieved and arrested” from the abandoned mine in Stilfontein, North West Province since the rescue operation began on Monday.

Jan 9, 2025 | jurist.org | Nicole D'Souza

Amnesty International denounced the killing of a former Cambodian-French opposition politician in Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday. Lim Kimya, a former member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was shot by a gunman on January 7, 2025, as he arrived in Bangkok. Kimya, a vocal critic of the Cambodian government, was travelling from the Cambodian city of Siem Reap with his wife and uncle when the gunman fired three shots, killing him.

Jan 8, 2025 | jurist.org | Nicole D'Souza

Five government critics in Angola arbitrarily imprisoned for over a year have been released, Amnesty International reported on Tuesday. Celebrating the release of the wrongfully detained critics, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Sarah Jackson, noted, “These five people should never have been locked up. Authorities arrested them solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly”.

Dec 10, 2024 | jurist.org | Nicole D'Souza

Amnesty International on Monday called upon Chad authorities to “immediately release” the relatives of killed opposition party leader Yaya Dillo Djerou, who remain detained despite being acquitted. The statement urges Chadian authorities to release 10 detained relatives of the opposition Parti Socialiste sans Frontières (PSF) leader. The relatives were acquitted in July following a military assault on the PSF headquarters in February 2024, during which Djerou was killed.