Gabon's president is an outlandishly corrupt autocrat who probably just stole an election. Why is the Atlantic Council toasting him at a black-tie gala?
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“By giving Ali Bongo this prestigious award, you ultimately assist his domestic propaganda apparatus by presenting him alongside democratically-elected leaders like Shinzo Abe and Matteo Renzi and providing him with photo opportunities,” said HRF president Thor Halvorssen.
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HRF condemns the arbitrary detention of Alejandro Puglia, a civil servant in the opposition-controlled National Assembly, after he brought a small commercial drone for aerial photography to a mass pro-democracy demonstration. This past Monday, a judge indicted Puglia for “favoring warfare,” an offense carrying a 10-year prison sentence.
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HRF urges President Barack Obama to demand a renewed investigation into the disappearance of civil society leader Sombath Somphone during his visit to Laos to attend the U.S.-ASEAN Summit.
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HRF strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest on apparent terrorism charges of opposition leader Yon Goicoechea by agents of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service. Goicoechea’s family has received no news of him since Monday, when armed agents stopped his car and transported him to an undisclosed location.
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“By exerting control over the flow of information, the Al Khalifa regime is trying to cover up its pervasive human rights violations and deny Bahrainis the right to associate and express themselves freely,” said Thor Halvorssen, president of HRF.
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HRF president Thor Halvorssen and HRF Chief Strategy officer Alex Gladstein on the Atlantic Council, which has chosen to give an award to the corrupt dictator of Gabon.
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NEW YORK (September 12, 2016) — Next week the Atlantic Council, a Washington D.C.-based policy organization, will celebrate the dictator of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, by presenting him with a prestigious award previously bestowed on Robert DeNiro and Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos.
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NEW YORK (September 9, 2016) — Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the arbitrary detention of Alejandro Puglia, a 25-year-old civil servant in the opposition-controlled National Assembly, after he brought a small commercial drone for aerial photography to a mass pro-democracy demonstration that took place in Caracas on September 1. This past Monday, a Venezuelan judge indicted Puglia for “favoring warfare” — an offense carrying a 10-year prison sentence — for allegedly violating a government-imposed ban on the use of drones to photograph public demonstrations.
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