Thursday, 3 April 2014

JUDICIARY BID TO STOP MEDIA SCRUTINY

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Swaziland’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has warned people and the media in the kingdom that they face prosecution if they discuss the...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014

EDITOR IS A SECRET SECURITY RISK: GOVT

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The Swaziland Government says it has to put Bheki Makhubu, the magazine editor charged with contempt of court, in leg-irons because he is a ...

SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON LACK OF FREEDOM

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Swaziland’s disregard for freedom has received international attention with the United States threatening to withdraw a favourable tradi...
Monday, 31 March 2014

JAIL WARDERS SEXUALLY ASSAULT KIDS

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Warders at a juvenile jail in Swaziland stripped naked, handcuffed and beat children in their care. They inserted fingers into girls’ privat...

KING’S PAPER QUESTIONS ABILITY OF JUDGE

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A Swaziland newspaper has reported criticisms of the competence of a judge at a time when one editor and a writer are in jail awaiting cont...
Friday, 28 March 2014

CENSORED: CRITICISM OF SWAZI STATE

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In Swaziland a magazine editor and a human rights lawyer are sitting in jail awaiting trial on ‘contempt of court’ charges. The ‘crime’ of ...
Tuesday, 25 March 2014

PAPER BANNED TO SPARE KING’S BLUSHES

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A South African Sunday newspaper was banned from Swaziland because it published an article that might embarrass King Mswati III. Swaz...
Monday, 24 March 2014

EDITOR APPEARS IN COURT IN LEG IRONS

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The Swaziland magazine editor Bheki Makhubu, whose arrest and jailing has sparked an outcry across the world, appeared in court in leg iro...
Friday, 21 March 2014

CALLS TO RELEASE JAILED CRITICS GROW

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More organisations within Swaziland and internationally have joined the chorus of support for the two ‘prisoners of conscience’ who have...