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We, the undermentioned organisations working to promote land rights and rule of law in Sierra Leone, are gravely concerned about the conviction and imprisonment of these activists.

A day before the start of yet another trial brought on the Bolloré Group against French journalists, organisations denounce the imprisonment of 6 local community leaders affected by the investments of company linked to Bolloré

A la veille d'un procès intenté par Bolloré contre des journalistes de médias français, des organisations dénoncent l’emprisonnement de 6 leaders des communautés locales affectées par les investissements d'une société liée au groupe Bolloré.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Sierra Leone.

Six personnes ont été condamnées à des peines de cinq et six mois de prison pour avoir détruit 40 palmiers à huile appartenant à l’entreprise Socfin.

Senior State Counsel, Simeon Allieu in the just concluded case between the Malen Land Owners Association and Socfin Agricultural Company, yesterday objected to the judgement passed by Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards at the Bo High Court.

A Sierra Leone court has convicted six people opposed to a palm oil project in which French conglomerate Bollore owns a major stake of destroying trees and inciting the local population to protest over land rights.

Jef Boedt, general manager of Socfin Cambodia, explains the company’s investment in Cambodia and operating challenges linked to land rights.

Leader in the palm oil production in Cameroon, Socapalm operates more than 78,500 hectares of palm grove in the Littoral and Southern regions.

French owned plantation firm Socfin has restarted talks with indigenous villagers affected by its plantations in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, with the UN saying the process could be replicated across a region dominated by agro-industrial firms.

« On ne prend pas la terre des villageois. On nous la propose ou on la demande », s’est défendu la société Socfin lors du colloque de Farm et Pluriagri à Paris le 14.12.2015.

SOCFIN reprochée par le point de contact national de l'OCDE en Belgique de ne pas avoir respecté des principes directeurs de l'OCDE en matière de conditions de travail et d'environnement.