by sabrinamahtani | Apr 20, 2015 | Advocacy, Blogs, Legal Aid, Press Releases
Press Release from AdvocAid and CARL Freetown, 20th April, 2015 AdvocAid and Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) acknowledge the decision of President Ernest Bai Koroma on Sunday 12 April 2015 to order the release of the two remaining women who were...
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 | Blogs, Legal Aid, Videos
A film crew from IRIN followed the work of two of AdvocAid’s paralegals, Marvel and Victoria, in Freetown and Makeni. This short film showcases the challenges they face and the importance of their free legal aid services with a growing female prison population...
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 | Aug 25, 2014 | Blogs, Education, Legal Aid, News
By Chris Randall, law student at Berkley School of Law, who volunteered with AdvocAid in 2014 In a small, sunlit courtyard in Koidu Prison, prisoners Aminatta, Hawa, and Kadi* practice pronouncing and writing letters of the English language. These twice-weekly English...
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....
