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Algeria continues to attack journalists and free speechF

Algerian court hands over death sentence to exiled journalist for publishing “fake” and “confidential” information Attacks on journalists in Algeria have reach an alarming level. Earlier this month, a court in the capital Algiers went as far as to hand a death penalty...
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Egypt releases activist Zyad el-Elaimy as it prepares to host global climate conferenceF

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has  pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011 revolt who has been jailed for the past three years, officials said Monday.  Zyad el-Elaimy, 42, arrested in June 2019 on charges of fomenting "unrest...
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Egypt’s newest prisons considered “cruel and inhuman” by rights activistsF

One of Egypt's newest prisons, presented as a model by authorities, has only replicated "cruel and inhuman conditions" in facilities previously used to house political opponents, Amnesty International said Thursday. Amnesty secretary general Agnes Callamard accused...
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Saudi Arabia jails Egyptian men for attempt to organize remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli warF

A Saudi judge on Monday sentenced 10 Egyptian men for up to 18 years for having tried to organise a remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, two relatives told AFP. The men, from Egypt's Nubian minority group, were found guilty of trying to establish a...
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