Programme News
22 October 2008
(News)
October 21, 2008, 18:15
Sick and dying inmates are being left to waste away behind prison walls. The harrowing scenes can be seen on secret footage taken inside a Gauteng prison. The exclusive footage forms part of a Special Assignment investigation into medical parole, which airs later tonight.
Shocking images from behind the walls of Modderbee prison, east of Johannesburg, are exposed. An...
22 October 2008
(Press release)
21 October 2008LHR reached an agreement with the Department of HomeAffairs today for the release of thirty-seven foreign nationals who have beendetained at Lindela Holding Facility since 6 August 2008. The 37 men were amongst hundreds of displaced foreignerswho sought temporary shelter and protection at Rifle Range, Glenanda followingthe xenophobic attacks in May of this year. Despite their...
14 October 2008
(Press release)
LHR has brought an urgent application against the Department of Home Affairs on behalf of 208 foreign nationals to be argued in the Pretoria High Court today.
This group of men were amongst the hundreds of displaced foreigners who sought temporary protection at Rifle Range, Glenanda following the xenophobic attacks in may of this year. During July they were part of a group who were removed...
14 October 2008
(News)
Business Day - State to review decisions on cross-border municipalities
Sibongakonke Shoba - Staff Writer
COMMUNITIES in areas where their municipalities were incorporated into other provinces against their will, seem to have won the battle as the government is now reviewing these decisions.
The provincial and local government department told Business Day that the decisions affecting...
11 August 2008
(News)
THE past three months have seen a dramatic change in the public perception of this country's victims of xenophobic violence.
From once pathetic victims of violent wrath by SA's poor and disillusioned, refugees upset by the government's poorly planned re-integration policy have now been branded as ungrateful rebels. This is often what happens when you don't live up to your brand name.
The...
29 July 2008
(News)
By Zelda VenterBarely two metres from the busy R512 roadleading to Lanseria Airport and Hartbeespoortdam, eight families have bravedthe inclement weather after they were evicted from the farm on which some hadlived for more than 60 years.
The group ranges from the elderly to smallchildren.
On Sunday night when the Pretoria News visited the evictees,65-year-old Priscilla Masilo and Jeremiah...
23 July 2008
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Release Glenanda Asylum seekers - lawyers
Asylum seekers and refugees detained at the Lindela Repatriation Centre following their removal from Johannesburg's Glenanda camp on Tuesday should not be deported, Lawyers for Human Rights said on Wednesday.
Spokesperson Jacob van Garderen said his organisation had sent a team of lawyers to the detention centre to help those who believed they had...
23 July 2008
(News)
The Citizen 23 July 2008
Fight to save foreigner camps
STEVEN TAU and CHRIS BATHEMBU
JOHANNESBURG - LAWYERS for Human Rights (LHR) will fight a bid by the Gauteng government to demolish temporary shelters set up to house victims of xenophobic attacks across the province.
The provincial government announced yesterday that the shelters will be destroyed by the end of the week...
22 July 2008
(News)
Pretoria - Residents of the Schubart and Kruger Parkflats in Pretoria obtained an urgent Pretoria High Court interdict on Tuesdayto stop their eviction.This followed an outbreak of violence and the death ofat least six residents when a fire broke out in the Kruger Park flats duringprotests against forced evictions.Judge Ferdi Preller granted an interim order to stopevictions from continuing at...
27 June 2008
(Press release)
NEWS RELEASE FROM LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS – 26 JUNE 2008
The Pretoria High Court today ordered the Department of Home Affairs to release a group of Zimbabwean asylum seekers who are unlawfully detained at the Lindela immigration detention centre. Lawyers for Human Rights brought this application on behalf of the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum and 33 political asylum seekers who were arrested...