by sabrinamahtani | Jan 20, 2015 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, Press Releases
Criminal Justice Organisations call on the President to revisit and revoke his Executive Detention Order of 24 October 2014 On 24 October 2014 His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma signed an Executive Detention Order against 34 people using his powers under the...
by sabrinamahtani | Oct 19, 2014 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, News
We are currently writing a series of Law in a Time of Ebola blogs, sharing our work during the tragic Ebola epidemic. Our second blog was published in the New Internationalist this week. When the Ebola epidemic escalated in Sierra Leone around June 2014 we...
by sabrinamahtani | Dec 23, 2013 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, News, Press Releases
Fatmata is a young secondary school girl, around 18 years old, who is currently being held in police custody at Magburaka Police Station, Northern Sierra Leone. She has been held since 3 December 2013 without charge, way over the 10 day constitutional time limit....
by sabrinamahtani | Nov 22, 2012 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, News, Press Releases
We, the following civil society organisations, AdvocAid, Amnesty International, Centre for Accountability & Rule of Law (CARL), L.A.W.Y.E.RS (Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality Rights & Social justice), and Prison Watch, strongly condemn the...
by sabrinamahtani | Nov 21, 2012 | Advocacy, Blogs, Press Releases, Publications
AdvocAid’s work, particularly our recent research report on Women, Debt and Detention, was featured in an IRIN news report (below). SIERRA LEONE: Women, debt and detention Photo: Otto Bakano/IRIN Juveniles in a police cell in a Sierra Leone, where women are...
by sabrinamahtani | Oct 10, 2012 | Advocacy, Blogs, Death penalty, Events
10 October 2012 marks World Day Against the Death Penalty The TRC recommended that Sierra Leone abolish the death penalty. “Respect for human dignity and human rights must begin with respect for human life. Everyone has the right to life. A society that accords the...
