LHR Press Statement – 28th May 2010 On 28 May the South Gauteng High Court ordered the immediate release of detained Zimbabwean human rights defender, Petro Chatiza. Lawyers for Human Rights launched an urgent court application for the release of Chatiza who has been active in the area of evictions and housing rights in Zimbabwe [...]
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The report of the independent monitoring team at De Doorns is now available on the CoRMSA website. An independent monitoring team managed by the Black Sash has been making regular visits to De Doorns to both the residential areas and the displacement site as a means of independently recording developments and providing information to all [...]
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The Guardian newspaper’s website features a short video where a group South African youth make further threats of xenophobic violence after the World Cup. Also featured is a group of foreign national women who talk about being threatened in different parts of Johannesburg. To view the video, please click here.
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The report of the South African Human Rights Commission’s investigation into the government response to the xenophobic violence in May 2008 is now available on the CoRMSA website. In December 2008, CoRMSA approached the Commission to request an investigation as there had still been no government inquiry into the violence more than six months later. [...]
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PRESS STATEMENT 11th May 2010 Real Threats of Mass Xenophobic Violence after World Cup Two years ago today, xenophobic violence swept through South Africa, shocking the nation and the world. Now, a month from the opening match of the World Cup, threats are mounting of further mass xenophobic violence once the event is over. Violence [...]
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A number of organisations and individuals have raised concerns regarding people detained on immigration charges at the Lindela Repatriation Facility. Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) have brought a number of matters to court alleging cases of wrongful arrest of asylum seekers who had been unable to renew their asylum seekers permits, the arrest and detention [...]
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There has been further xenophobic violence in the Free State. A fight between a Somali national and a South African on the night of 2nd May in Iraq Phase 2 near Sasolburg where the South African was allegedly stabbed then resulted in widespread public violence and the looting of foreign-owned businesses for the following two [...]
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Two new reports by the independent monitoring team in De Doorns have just been published on our website. The monitoring team managed by the Black Sash has continued its monitoring work at the displacement site and in the areas from where people were displaced and continued to feed this information to local authorities. This monitoring [...]
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