“Free speech” isn’t so free when it costs you your liberty. In countries around the world, the right to express one’s thoughts and beliefs is under assault. Throughout the world individuals face harassment and imprisonment as a result of exercising their right to freedom of expression. Everyone has the right to seek, receive and impart […]

        Three Kenyan police officers were on Friday shot dead by Ethiopian soldiers as they patrolled the Anona area in Sololo, Marsabit County. Tension is high in the area following the presence of the foreign military forces, who are pursuing the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). Ethiopian soldiers and OLF fighters had […]

      VICE News is closely watching the international migrant crisis.  Eritrea — nicknamed the “North Korea of Africa” — is currently experiencing an exodus of children. After Syrians, its citizens were the second most common nationality attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe this summer. That voyage is only one hurdle on the long […]

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A 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death at a refugee reception centre in Western Norway on Thursday night, in one of the worst examples of refugee violence yet seen in the country.   An 18-year-old man, also Eritrean, has been arrested and charged  with “causing severe bodily injury leading to death”, police lawyer Knut Meek […]

  The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee on Thursday criticized Iran for cracking down on activists, journalists and dissidents and its increased use of the death penalty, a rebuke Tehran dismissed as “Iranophobia.” The non-binding resolution, which was drafted by Canada, was adopted by the 193-nation assembly’s Third Committee with 76 votes in favour, […]