Blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng is worried that authorities will persecute his family after his escape from house arrest, he told RFI on Wednesday.
France is one of the countries highlighted by rights group Amnesty International as discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in the fields of education and ...
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were to begin a hunger strike Tuesday in a protest at the increasingly harsh treatment they say they are receiving in custody.
Mali’s west African neighbours are threatening to send a military force to the north of the country after the military junta in Bamako agreed to return the country to civilian rule ...
An auction of instruments of torture due to take place in Paris on Tuesday has been cancelled after protests from France’s culture minister and human rights campaigners.
In the Eastern European country of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko has now been in power for more than 17 years. And the authoritarian leader shows no signs of relinquishing it.
Liberian journalist Mae Azango has been forced into hiding after publishing an article in the Liberian daily Front Page Africa on the practice of female genital cutting or excision in the country. Azango, a New Narratives fellow talks to RFI's Laura-Angela Bagnetto about her experience.
