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Repression Bound
Why Morocco’s Protests Aren’t Just About Youth: The Fight for Dignity and Justice
Transcript Morocco is once again at the center of deep civil unrest, drawing international attention—not least from...
Tunisia: Armed Militias Attack the UGTT
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Algeria: Human rights groups demand release of 23 political prisoners on hunger strike
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood’s Mahmud Ezzat gets life sentence
Algeria withdraws law stripping citizenship to opponents abroad, big loss for regime hardliners
Algeria: 15-year-old boy accuses police of sex abuse
Algeria: Journalist Abdelhakim Setouane gets six months in prison
Algeria: Journalist Drareni heads back to court after Supreme Court orders retrial
By Abdellah Cheballah with Philippe Agret - Prominent journalist Khaled Drareni, a symbol of the struggle for a free...
Libya’s media professionals face censorship, intimidation and threats
Tunisian youth in permanent fear of repression
Sahel: Chad ups violence against opposition, less than a month to presidential election
Tunisia counts its losses from the Jasmine Revolution
Repression: Egypt sentences activist Sanaa Seif to 18 months in prison
Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading "false...
Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”
Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced...
Algeria: Protest movement enters third week of rallies as students maintain their Tuesday marches
Hundreds of students and pro-democracy supporters demonstrated in Algiers Tuesday as a revived protest movement enters...
Morocco: Jailed historian Maati Monjib goes on hunger strike
A Moroccan historian and rights activist who was jailed in January has begun a hunger strike, supporters and a legal...
Egypt continues to favor capital punishment, executes 11 people
Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source said, in the latest cases of...
Algeria: Police unleash violence on population in Ouargla after blogger sentenced to seven years in prison
Unrest broke out late Sunday in a southern Algerian town after a blogger and activist was handed a seven-year jail...
Algeria: Freed political prisoner alleges practice of torture
The public prosecutor at a court in Algiers ordered an inquiry Sunday after a student alleged security forces had...
Egypt: Al-Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein free at last after spending four years in Egyptian prison
By Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha - Egypt has freed a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, a security source...
Morocco under pressure to release from prison historian and rights activist Maati Monjib
Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Morocco to release dissident historian and rights activist Maati Monjib, who...
Tunisia’s government dangerously sliding into repression
Tunisia: Rights groups decry mass arrests in Tunisia
Morocco’s abusive use of preventative detention
Egypt targets Muslim Brotherhood members, including late President Morsi, with asset seizures
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
Tunisia: Celebrating one decade of protest and a whole lot more to come
By Caroline Nelly Perrrot and Aymen Jamli: Tunisia, where the Arab Spring started, has also been its relative success...
Algeria’s ex leaders committed more crimes with the help of Gulf donors
Former Algerian premier Ahmed Ouyahia, on trial for corruption, admitted Saturday to receiving gold bars from Gulf...
Libya: Growing pressure on Tripoli-based government over mass graves
Human Rights Watch appealed Thursday to Libya's internationally recognised government to launch an investigation aimed...
Jailed Algerian pro-democracy activists in hospital amid hunger strike
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital Tuesday, 10 days after they began a hunger...
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and...
Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
Egypt: Anger in Rome after Egypt cleared policemen in Giulio Regeni murder case
Morocco arrests rights activist and historian Maati Monjib
Algeria and Morocco continue to repress journalists and rights activists
Algeria: Journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche faces heightened judicial harassment
An Algerian journalist was released from prison Wednesday only to return directly to court for hearings in two other...
Egypt: Religious minorities vulnerable as court acquits men who attacked Christian woman
Algerian regime launches frontal assault on online media
Algeria has announced tighter state controls over online media, sparking alarm in the North African country whose...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Egypt: How both the military and IS terrorize the people of Sinai
Residents of Egypt's restive North Sinai region ran for their lives when an Islamic State group affiliate occupied...
Algeria: Appeals court ridicules lower court for issuing 10 year jail sentence over opinion on religion
Egypt continues to jail human rights activists
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday arrested a second staff member of a leading local human rights group, the...