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Tunisia: Senior opposition figure Rached Ghannouchi gets one year in prison, as president moves to authoritarianismF

The Tunisian Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party on Tuesday condemned the one-year prison sentence handed to its leader Rached Ghannouchi, calling it an "unjust political verdict". Ghannouchi, a leading opponent of President Kais Saied, was sentenced on Monday on...
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Tunisia pushes for more judicial harassment against the media, arrests journalist Khalifa GuesmiF

A Tunisian appeals court has handed a five-year jail term to a radio journalist for disclosing information about the security services, his lawyer said Tuesday. Khalifa Guesmi of the private Mosaique FM radio station had appealed a one-year jail term handed down in...
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Libya: Fathi Bashagha, rival prime minister, ousted by eastern parliamentF

Related Content: The fleecing of Libya [listen as audio podcast] Also: How to Plunder a Nation: How the Ben Ali clan ransacked Tunisia’s wealth Libya's parliament, in the east of the divided country, on Tuesday suspended Fathi Bashagha as head of an administration...
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Libyan forces intervene to halt deadly clashes between rival militiasF

Libyan security forces said Sunday they had deployed in Zawiya after battles between armed groups in the western city left three people dead including two civilians, according to medics. "We have deployed on the instructions of the supreme military authorities in the...
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