Human Rights

Winneba,  Ghana – Challenging Heights is pleased to announce that the film, The Rescue List, has won America’s Emmy Award 2021, in the Outstanding Social Issue Documentary category. In the year 2015, Challenging Heights entered into an agreement with a San Francisco based documentary film makers, The Collective Hunch, who …

Tamale, Ghana – The Defense Team of Alex Saab notes that on 1 September the Barlavento Court of Appeal (TRB) granted a request made by Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab that the site of his detention be moved to Praia from the Island of Sal. Dr Jose Manuel Pinto Monteiro, head …

Tamale, Ghana – A Rule of Law Specialist with the Legal Resources Center, Enock Jengre has urged government to resource the Legal Aid Commission to enhance justice delivery through the implementation of Ghana’s Case Tracking System (CTS). According to him, inadequate budgetary allocation, logistics and lawyers to enable the Commission …

Walewale, Ghana – A 52-year-old farmer, Abdul Samed-Fuseini, arrested and accused of impregnating a helpless widow, repeatedly raped and defiled three underage sisters is standing trial in a Walewale District Court. His charges are five counts of Rape, Incest and Defilement. Count One: Defilement of female under 16 years of …

Tamale, Ghana – Bearing any unforeseen circumstances, a final ruling from the Constitutional Court of Cape Verde is expected on the basis of an appeal lodged by Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab’s lawyers, seeking to highlight the many unconstitutional irregularities in the processing of the US extradition case against him. The …

In a few moments the Constitutional Court will render its decision on the basis of the appeal lodged by the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab invoking no less than 12 unconstitutional irregularities in the processing of the extradition case that concerns him. This is a serious and solemn moment, with multiple …

Tamale, Ghana – A Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry,  N.T. Lakhonin has described as illegal Washington’s decision to extradite Special Envoy of the Government of Venezuela Alex Saab to the United States of America. A statement issued to the press read,  “We …

Tamale, Ghana – “The Supreme Court of Cape Verde has declared that Alex Saab is free. It has now said on several occasions that because he is under house arrest then he is not ‘in prison,” said Dr Jose Manuel Pinto Monteiro in Praia today. Dr Monteiro went on to …

Tamale, Ghana – The defence team of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab who has been imprisoned for over a year in Sal awaiting the outcome of an extradition process to the United States, has filed formal complaints against the Republic’s Attorney General, José Landim, at the Cape Verdean Public Prosecutor’s Office, …

Accra, Ghana – In a report which pulls no punches,  a panel of experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to look at the impact of unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has concluded that hundreds of cancer patients could die. …