Justice

News and hard-hitting, insightful, thoughtful, provocative and progressive analysis of justice-related issues in Canada and around the world.

The impacts of colonialism outlive the British Queen

The story of the systematic violence, torture and mass murder suffered by the people of Africa and the Caribbean under British colonial rule, and the massive cover-ups of these crimes against humanity, unfolded under Queen Elizabeth II’s imperial watch.

Guest Blog
October 31, 2022

Human rights groups: “Iranian authorities must immediately release technologists and digital rights defenders”

Access Now, ARTICLE19, Front Line Defenders and the Electronic Frontier Foundation "strongly condemn the Iranian authorities’ ruthless persecution, harassment, and arrest of technologists and digital rights defenders amid the deadly crackdown on nationwide protests" triggered by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody.

The Canadian Progressive
October 17, 2022

Egypt: Global coalition calls for release of Mohamed el-Baqer and Alaa Abdel Fattah on three year anniversary of their arrests

Civil society organizations call on the government of Egypt to immediately release Egyptian human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer and British-Egyptian writer and pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and drop all charges against them

The Canadian Progressive
September 30, 2022

Derek Chauvin convicted for brutal murder of George Floyd

This week, the most consequential trial in this historic era of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement culminated in a rare guilty verdict. A Minneapolis jury found Derek Chauvin, a white man and former police officer, guilty of the May 2020 brutal, daylight lynching of George Floyd, a Black American man.

Obert Madondo
April 25, 2021

Obamas on Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict: “Today, a jury did the right thing.”

The "jury did the right thing" when it found Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd, a Black man, guilty on all three charges of murder and manslaughter, according to former U.S. President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.

Obert Madondo
April 23, 2021

The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer’s trial

U.S. civil liberties and media freedom played a key role in 17-year-old Darnella Frazier's recording and dissemination of a cellphone video of the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer who was this week found guilty on all three charges brought against him in relation to the May 2020 murder.

Guest Blog
April 22, 2021

Obert Madondo is an Ottawa-based digital artist, blogger, photographer, graphic designer, web designer, digital rights enthusiast, digital storytelling enthusiast, aspiring filmmaker, and online publisher.

Obert is a former political aide to a prominent former Zimbabwean lawmaker, human rights defender and former freedom fighter. Obert has previously worked as an international development administrator in Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, and Canada.

Obert is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Canadian Progressive, an independent political blog dedicated to producing fearless, evidence-based, adversarial, unapologetic, progressive and activism-oriented journalism situated right at the intersection of politics, technology and human rights.

Follow Obert on Twitter: @Obiemad