President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday hit back at the Amnesty International and other human rights groups for blaming government after arrests of leaders of Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) for planning to hold protests aimed at shutting down presidential residences. Two members of the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) — vice chairperson Gift Trapence and […]
Global human rights defender, Amnesty International (AI), has said the arrest of two activists with the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) is a crackdown on dissent ahead of first ever fresh elections. HRDC’s Gift Trapence and Reverend McDonald Sembereka, who have been vocal critics of last year’s election, have been in police custody since Sunday after they […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson Nicholas Dausi has expressed worry over the allegations made by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) that the party was responsible for the petrol-bombing of a house belonging to HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo. Mtambo, who is also Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) executive director, had his house […]
Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi has asked Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi (APAM) to persuade international rights defenders such as Amnesty International for the application of a death sentence to people convicted of murdering persons with albinism, saying this will deter others from abusing people with albinism. Dausi made the rematks […]
Mulanje South parliamentarian-cum-comedian Bon Kalindo popularly known as Winiko has blasted donors specifically global human rights body, Amnesty International “to go to hell” with their anti-death penalty campaign, saying Malawi needs to execute killers of people with albinism. Kalindo, who organised a protest march to National Assembly with an aim to force the members of […]
Amnesty International has faulted Malawi government of failing to protect people with albinism and has called for authorities to do more to punish those responsible deeply disturbing pattern of disappearances and killings of the vulnerable group. It is widely believed that albino body parts are sold for use in witchcraft. In the past 19 months […]
Malawi government has been urged by three renowned international human rights organisations to protect sexual minorities. “Malawi should take decisive steps to end discrimination and protect sexual minorities,” urged . Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. The made the call ahead of the just-ended 34th Summit of Heads of […]
Zimbabwe government has hired a Malawian prolific hangman who is expected to execute about 76 inmates on death row, two of them women, after a seven-year hiatus. Since the last hangman retired in 2005, Zimbabwe has not executed any prisoners. But state-run Herald newspaper reported that the post has been filled by a Malawian executioner. […]
Human rights group Amnesty International (AI) has applauded Malawi government following the announcement by Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara that Police have been ordered not to arrest or prosecute homosexuals until parliament has debated on whether to to repeal the anti-homosexuality laws. Kasambara made the announcement during a debate Thursday night in Lilongwe, that after President […]
The arrest and persecution of Ralph Kasambara, a human rights lawyer and former attorney general, has caught the attention of international watchdogs who are calling on Malawian authorities to comply immediately with a court order to free him. Amnesty International and Ireland based FrontLine Defenders have issued statements calling on the release of Kasambara. FrontLine Defenders said […]
A Magistrate, who was supposed to determine bail application for five activists being held in connection with a peaceful protest in the capital Lilongwe , did not show up for the ruling and police took them back in their custody. The five – Billy Mayaya, Habiba Osman a lawyer with the development NGO Norwegian Church […]
Amnesty International o Monday called on Malawian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release five activists being held in connection with a peaceful protest in the capital Lilongwe on Friday. The five – Billy Mayaya, Habiba Osman a lawyer with the development NGO Norwegian Church Aid, as well as Brian Nyasulu, Ben Chiza Mkandawire and Comfort […]