Paul Rusesabagina, the humanitarian whose story of bravery and compassion was told in the movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’, was abducted from Dubai over a month ago and is being held in Rwanda without proper medical treatment or access to his family appointed lawyers.
PoC is excited to announce two upcoming events: The annual re-qualification bursary awards event and the Christmas Big Give.
Eric, former PoC beneficiary and Rwandan journalist living in exile, vouches for Rusesabagina’s heroism, patriotism and compassion, urging the international community to do more to secure Rusesabagina’s immediate release.
The money raised will enable Prisoners of Conscience to help people who have experienced persecution at the hands of others, all because they made a peaceful stand against human rights abuses.
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In times of crisis, the knowledge that others care can make all the difference. While all eyes are locked on governments and their response to Coronavirus, let prisoners of conscience around the world know they haven’t been forgotten
Covid-19 is a global health challenge but it is also a global human rights crisis. This is not something reserved for those countries with traditionally poor human rights records. All over the world, our rights are under threat in some way or another.
“But the night before the meeting, at around midnight, a group of armed men wearing civilian clothes came to my house to arrest me. They forced my door open, telling me they would kill me if I didn’t obey.”
“There was an awareness of the feeling of injustice starting to form within my social class because of me, and so they decided to suppress this awareness by imprisoning me in an ugly way.”
The Covid-19 crisis is also a human rights crisis, with most
of our rights under threat in some way or another – and we all have a role to play in protecting them.
This was the message to come out of a recent online panel discussion featuring speakers from Prisoners of Conscience, Amnesty International UK, Front Line Defenders and Human Rights Watch.