Southern Africa Human Defenders Network (SAHRDN) has expressed concern over what it calls “arbitrary arrests” of Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) members Gift Trapence and MacDonald Sembereka in Lilongwe on Sunday. The two were arrested barely hours President Peter Mutharika warned HRDC leaders against plotting anarchy. National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera has issued a statement Monday […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera risks arrest and prosecution as President Peter Mutharika on Sunday accused him of plotting insurrection through violence using the party’s supporters way before the May 21 2019 elections. Mutharika said on Sunday that the protest marches and violence perpetrated by alleged MCP supporters in some areas in the […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) chairperson Timothy Mtambo on Sunday went to hiding escaping a police arrest barely few hours after declaring on Facebook that he is not scared as members of his grouping were nabbed by the law enforcers in Lilongwe. Mtambo posted his comment on Facebook just after President Peter Mutharika warned him and his […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has warned Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) alongside opposition political parties, against creating anarchy to fulfil their alleged regime change quest. HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo said the group has planned March 25as the date for the shutdown of State Houses if President Peter is not going to act on […]
President Peter Mutharika has strongly warned the civil society organisations (CSOs) under the banner of Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) and opposition political parties in the country against creating a lawless state. Mutharika issued the stern warning on Sunday at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre during Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) […]
Malawi police has made a second arrest of Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) vice chairpersons Gift Trapence who joins executive member Reverend Macdonald Sembereka in custody barely hours after President Peter Mutharika warned at a political rally in Blantyre that he will deal with the grouping for their plans to make Malawi ungovernable. HRDC spokesperson Luke Tembo […]
Malawi police has arrested Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) member Reverend Macdonald Sembereka in Lilongwe barely hours after President Peter Mutharika warned at a political rally in Blantyre that he will deal with the grouping which has announced to stage protests at State House. Sembereka is HRDC Central Region chairperson. He confirmed in a Facebook post […]
Rights activists, the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) say they will shut down all state residences in what they say a five million strong protesters demonstration on March 25. HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo said on Friday in Lilongwe that they will shut down the state residences to force President Peter Mutharika fire all MEC commissioners […]
Rights activist Timothy Mtambo has told opposition leaders in the country to take action against President Peter Mutharika for his failure to fire Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners after the pollster said registration for voters for the Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election starts on March 10. The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) chairperson said […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has cancelled a vigil and protest march on Monday to force legislators pass the Constitutional Court ordered electoral reform bills. HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo said the protest march and the vigil will instead be done on Tuesday to allow the members of parliament debate and probably pass the bills. He […]
Lilongwe city council has cleared Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) for a protest march and vigil at parliament on Monday to put pressure on members of parliament pass the 50+1 related legislation. DPP members of parliament have been rejecting the bills which would set a new date for the Constitutional Court sanctioned fresh presidential election […]
At least 85 Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members of parliament who on Thurday shot down a Constitutional Amendment Bill to have a provision for a run-off in case no presidential candidate garners over 50 percent of the total votes cast, have been dragged to court for contempt. Lawyer Ayuba James also said Human Rights Defenders […]
The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has come out guns blazing in condemning some undemocratic tendencies exhibited by the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In a statement released on Thursday, MLS says it finds fault with the HRDC-organized demonstrations that locked the offices of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as a means […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) chairperson Timothy Mtambo has flatly refused to apologise to government members of parliament whom he described as childish. Mtambo described the legislators sitting on the government side childish after they walked out of the House on Wednesday in protest against the presence of Mtambo and HRDC vice chairperson Gift Trapence […]
A fierce human rights activist and critic of President Peter Mutharika and his administration has launched a blistering assault on members of parliament for walking out on Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) officials in the House on Tuesday. Deputy leader of the House Martha Lunji on Tuesday told Speaker of parliament Catherine Gotani Hara to […]
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has told President Peter Mutharika to come out and condemn his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) followers who on Monday attacked the Constitutional Court judges who were hearing the election case calling them corrupt. Thousands of the DPP on Monday took to the streets in Blantyre to protest against the […]
Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Gotani Hara on Tuesday temporarily suspended Parliament proceedings after after Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) leaders, Timothy Mtambo and Gift Trapence walked in the august house in Lilongwe. Deputy leader of the house Martha Chanjo Mhone moved a motion to suspend the House for the business committee to meet […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) offices are open in Blantyre and Mzuzu just a day after the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) forcibly closed them to force the resignation of the pollster’s commissioners. But in Lilongwe, the offices remained closed with iron chains and locks and the place looks deserted except for armed police officers manning […]