swaziland: group to picket over rights violations

Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN), the civil society umbrella group, says that it plans to picket in South Africa next week against human rights violations in its country. Bongani Masuku, the SSN secretary-general, said in Johannesburg that the demonstration would be held outside the Swaziland consulate, in Braamfontein, on April 12. "Gross violation of human rights, strategic intimidation tactics perpetrated by the government on the judiciary, and suppression of women in Swaziland, have reached a stage where they are unbearable," he said.