Repression Bound

Egyptian regime releases businessmen Safwan and Seif El-Dine Thabet after 2 years in pretrial detentionF

Two leading Egyptian businessmen have been released after some two years in pretrial detention on terrorism-related charges, their family said Saturday. "My father Safwan Thabet and my brother Seif el-Din Thabet are with us," Safwan's daughter Mariam wrote on social...
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Sahel: The dreadful Koro Toro prison and the brutality of the Chadian regimeF

By Ali Abba Kaya with Laura Diab and Thomas Gropallo in Libreville: Dehydrated and whipped by scorching winds as their crowded truck snaked through the dunes, some drank urine to survive, while those who died were tossed into the Chadian desert. After being rounded up...
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Algerian: Independent journalist Ihsane el-Kadi still in prisonF

Rights group Amnesty International urged Algeria on Tuesday to immediately release prominent jailed journalist Ihsane El Kadi, condemning what it called a "ruthless campaign" to silence critics. El Kadi, director of the Maghreb Emergent news website and Radio M, was...
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Egyptian lawyers go on strike in solidarity with jailed colleaguesF

The Egyptian Bar Association announced Thursday an "unlimited" strike to condemn the imprisonment of six colleagues for a court brawl with three clerks earlier this month. "We are immediately suspending all of our activities, we will stop appearing before the courts...
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