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Repression Bound
Mauritania Arrests Anti‑Corruption Figure Mohamed Ould Gadda
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Morocco’s Influencers Face Rising Legal Risks
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Libyan authorities are cracking down on civil society groups
Libyan authorities have imposed "severe restrictions" on local and international civil society groups, obstructing...
Tunisia arrests opposition leader Ghannouchi, shuts offices of Ennahdha party
Tunisian authorities closed the offices of Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha on Tuesday, a day after...
Algeria passes law further curbing press freedom
Algeria's parliament on Thursday passed a law further restricting press freedom in the North African country by...
Tunisia: Football star Nizar Issaoui sets himself alight to protest police brutality
A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week in what he called a...
Egypt: Khaled Elbalshy of banned Darb news site, elected chief of Egypt’s journalist union
Egypt's journalist union said Saturday it had elected government critic Khaled Elbalshy as its head, amid a crackdown...
Tunisia: European Parliament lashes out at Tunisian president over his “authoritarian drift”
The European Parliament on Thursday decried Tunisian President Kais Saied's "authoritarian drift" and called for the...
Mali junta cracks down on social media influencers, arrests Rokia Doumbia
Algeria: Trial of independent journalist Ihasane El-Kadi starts on Sunday
Jailed Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi, accused of illegal fundraising, will remain silent during his trial which...
Tunisia: Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine calls media and politicians “traitors”
Unions and rights groups demanded an apology from Tunisia's interior minister on Wednesday after he lashed out at...
Tunisia: President’s racist speech sparks violence against migrants
Egyptian court labels veteran human rights activists “terrorists”, sentences them to 15 years in prison
Sahel: Chad’s human rights commission puts death toll in last year’s protests to 128
Tunisia arrests secular opposition politician Jawhar Ben Mbarek
Morocco: Appeals court reduces sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane but he is still in prison
Algeria arrests four over dissident who fled to France
Algeria arrests analyst Raouf Farrah, keeps elderly mother of opposition figure under court supervision
The mother of prominent French-Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui has been released from custody but remains under court...
Tunisia: Police call head of dissolved opposition party Ennahdha for more questioning
The head of Tunisia's dissolved parliament is facing a new police inquiry, his Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party said...
Egypt issues another death sentence for “terrorism”
An Egyptian court sentenced one man to death and 11 to life imprisonment after convicting them of joining a "terrorist...
Algerian regime’s fixation on all and any domestic opposition turns into paranoia
By Abdellah Cheballah: Algeria recalled on Wednesday its envoy to France "for consultations" after Paris intervened to...
Egypt keeps social media influencers in prison, along with 60,000 political prisoners
Tunisia: Government of Kais Saied now targets trade union leaders
A powerful Tunisian trade union Wednesday condemned the arrest of one of its top officials, saying it was linked to...
Egyptian regime releases businessmen Safwan and Seif El-Dine Thabet after 2 years in pretrial detention
Sahel: The dreadful Koro Toro prison and the brutality of the Chadian regime
Algerian: Independent journalist Ihsane el-Kadi still in prison
Egyptian lawyers go on strike in solidarity with jailed colleagues
The Egyptian Bar Association announced Thursday an "unlimited" strike to condemn the imprisonment of six colleagues...
Egypt: Businessman and fledgling actor Mohamed Ali gets life sentence in absentia for anti-Sisi campaign
Egypt faces major risks this year as economy continues to fall apart
“Chicken feet are good for you…” The Egyptian pound traded Wednesday at half its value from March after the central...
Tunisian regime seeks to strip judges of immunity before charging them of terrorism
Tunisian prosecutors asked the top judicial body to strip 13 judges of immunity so they can be tried on terror...
Algeria’s political police arrest independent journalist El Kadi Ihsane
Tunisia electoral board sues media outlets for “attacking dignity of voters”
Sahel: Court in Chad jails hundreds for alleged involvement in riots
By Ali Abba Kaya A Chadian court has handed jail terms of between two and three years to 262 people who were arrested...
Sahel: Lawyers in Chad to boycott trials of hundreds of anti-government protesters
Algeria continues to attack journalists and free speech
Algerian court hands over death sentence to exiled journalist for publishing “fake” and “confidential” information...
Egypt releases activist Zyad el-Elaimy as it prepares to host global climate conference
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011...
Egypt’s newest prisons considered “cruel and inhuman” by rights activists
Saudi Arabia jails Egyptian men for attempt to organize remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war
Sahel: Burkina Faso coup leader removed by another coup
Morocco punishes government critic Saida El Alami with an extra year in her two-year prison term
A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday extended by another year the prison sentence of an activist tried for...