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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 continues to attack journalists and free speech
Algerian court hands over death sentence to exiled journalist for publishing “fake” and “confidential” information...
Migration: Three-year old girl from Tunisia reaches Italy on migrant boat, without parents
A Tunisian toddler aged just three has reached Italy aboard a boat with other irregular migrants, but without her...
Saudi Arabia jails Egyptian men for attempt to organize remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war
A Saudi judge on Monday sentenced 10 Egyptian men for up to 18 years for having tried to organise a remembrance event...
Tunisia: President issues decree that punishes authors of “fake news” with up to 5 years in prison
Tunisia's President Kais Saied issued a decree Friday that punishes the dissemination of "fake news" with up to five...
Egypt detains three over viral video of mosque dancing
Egypt has detained three men after a video clip allegedly showing one of them singing and dancing at a mosque went...
Morocco: Woman to walk free after more than 3 years in prison over religious views
A dual Moroccan-Italian citizen jailed for three and a half years for "insulting Islam" will walk free Monday after a...
Morocco: Despair and Western Sahara politics fuel migration drama in Morocco
Spain accuses Morocco of 'aggression' and 'blackmail' over migrant crisis Madrid, May 20, 2021 (AFP) - Spain's defence...
Algerian regime launches frontal assault on civil society
It’s hunting season against journalists and free thinkers Being a journalist or a whistleblower is a dangerous job in...
Egypt makes a mockery of justice: it keeps social media influencers in prison, despite acquittal
An Egyptian court Thursday prolonged the detention of two young women, accusing them of human trafficking connected to...
Tunisia: Italian garbage landing in Tunisia forces president to fire environment minister
Tunisia’s environment minister and others arrested over Italian trash scandal Tunisia arrested a dozen people...
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...
Algeria: Appeals court ridicules lower court for issuing 10 year jail sentence over opinion on religion
An Algerian appeals court Wednesday slashed to one year a 10-year jail term handed to opposition activist Yacine...
Algeria: United Nations independent experts pressuring Algeria to release wrongly jailed journalist
A journalist jailed for his coverage of mass protests in Algeria must be released, United Nations independent experts...
The Algerian regime does it again: it blocks Internet access for the whole country to secure a pointless high-school exam
Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African...
Algerian police arrest singer for criticizing dilapidated hospital
The Algerian authorities arrested singer Siham Japonia after she was accused of "attacking the symbols of the...
Egypt: A flyover symbolizing a mediocre government ($)
Cairo, May 14, 2020 - A road bridge under construction in Egypt's capital that almost abuts balconies of apartment...
North Africa’s incomprehensible night curfews
Opinion by Arezki Daoud: Persistent, logical and even unpopular policies must be implemented to fight the coronavirus....
Morocco: Journalist Hajar Raissouni sent to jail for “illegal abortion”
Rabat, Sept 30, 2019 - Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail...
Moroccan lawmakers continue to oppose the Amazigh ethnic rights
An anti-Berber legislative body in Morocco, the Finance and Economic Development Committee in the house of...
Egypt unfreezes assets of Habib al-Adly, one of Mubarak’s most ruthless security chiefs
Cairo, May 26, 2019 - Egypt has unfrozen the assets of its Mubarak-era interior minister, who was acquitted on all...
Algeria: A funny election charade
Comments by Arezki Daoud | 26 May 2019 | The regime in Algeria that is trying to move the country into an unw anted...
Mauritania: Blogger Ould Mkheitir still held in prison
Nouakchott, April 24, 2019 - A Mauritanian blogger who came to world attention after being given the death penalty for...
Algeria: The Algiers mosque, symbol of the misguided vision of a leader that destroyed his country
Algiers, April 15, 2019 - Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika may be gone, but his unfinished Great Mosque of Algiers looms...
Morocco: Jailed leader of the protest movement takes drastic step of sewing his lips
Rabat, April 9, 2019 - The jailed leader of a Moroccan protest movement, Nasser Zefzafi, has sewn his lips together...
Morocco: Journalist Bouachrine sentenced to 12 years in prison over bogus charges
Rabat, Feb 26, 2019 - Amnesty International urged Morocco on Tuesday to "immediately" free a newspaper publisher...
Luxembourg Prime Minister is right: Arab and European leaders believe in “Father Christmas”
Opinion by Arezki Daoud - 25 February 2019: Leaders and representatives of some 40 Arab and European countries met in...
Egypt: Al Sisi, President for Life
Cairo, Feb 3, 2019 - Egyptian lawmakers on Sunday tabled proposed constitutional changes that would allow President...
Libya: UN still looking for more conferences that produce nothing
Commentary by Arezki Daoud: The United Nations and its envoy, Mr. Ghassan Salame have an interesting take on...
Egypt sinks deeper into dangerous conservatism, jails TV host Gheiti over gay interview
Editor's note- By Arezki Daoud: Egypt is going through a tumultuous period, not just because of the terror attacks...
Egypt: Al-Azhar leaders lost their minds that even top conservative cleric asked them to think a little
They lost the trust of the population and now some Egyptian leaders appear to just have lost their minds. One of them,...