A civil rights body has warned government that it risks paying huge sums of money in compensation to prisoners whose rights have been infringed upon due to the ongoing strike by prison warders. Victor Mhango, executive director of Centre for Rehabilitation, Education and Advice (CHREA) said the Prison Department has failed to release some prisoners who whose term of […]
As Malawi is undertaking reforms in different sectors including the constitution, citizens are also demanding the review of vagrancy laws such as rogue and vagabond. The law gives power to law enforcers to arrest anyone who has nothing to do during the day or night and many people have cautioned the motive behind it saying […]
A civil rights organization has warned government that it risks a classic law suit from immigrants whom the state continues to hold in prisons instead of deporting them. Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance Victor Mhango said the government continues to hold 119 immigrants from Ethiopia in the country’s prisons. “This is illegal. […]
Blantyre-based Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) has called on President Joyce Banda to release two prisoners who excelled in their MSCE exams and have been selected to the country’s public universities. The two prisoners are among 1909 students selected to two of the country’s four public universities. According to the selection […]
Human rights organisations on Tuesday called on the Malawi government to urgently repeal out-dated, colonial era vagrancy laws that are being used by the police to target the poor and marginalised in Blantyre. A research report released Tuesday in the capital Lilongwe by the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) and the […]