Tunisian journalist El-Heni was released from prison on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, but he was given a six-month...
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UN rapporteur on human rights pressures Algeria to release jailed activists
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Tuesday urged Algeria to release all jailed human...
Egypt: Italy sets new trial for Egyptians accused of student’s murder
A court in Italy on Monday set a February date for a new trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused...
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...
Algeria: MSF criticizes Algeria for mistreatment of migrants
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounced Thursday the "abandon" of thousands of migrants expelled by Algeria into...
Mali junta cracks down on social media influencers, arrests Rokia Doumbia
A prominent social media influencer in Mali was detained Wednesday after lambasting the ruling military junta as a...
Tunisia arrests spokesman of moderate Islamist party Ennahdha
Photo: Ennahdha spokesman Abdelfattah Taghouti: The spokesman of Tunisia's Islamist-leaning Ennahdha party has been...
Libya: With thousands of migrants held in detention centers, Libya continues to violate human rights
Around 5,000 migrants are being held in official detention centres in Libya and they represent just the tip of the...
Tunisia: President’s racist speech sparks violence against migrants
By Evelyne Aka, with Françoise Kadri in Tunis: Almost 300 people returned from Tunisia to Mali and Ivory Coast on...
Tunisian regime accuses former head of Truth and Dignity Commission of falsifying report
The head of a panel tasked with uncovering abuses under Tunisia's autocratic past rulers said Tuesday she had been...
Egyptian court labels veteran human rights activists “terrorists”, sentences them to 15 years in prison
A special Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced four veteran human rights activists to prison terms up to 15 years for...
Tunisia in damage control campaign after president’s remarks on migrants
By Ezzedine Said: Tunisia's top diplomat sought to "reassure" sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, in an interview...
Sahel: Chad’s human rights commission puts death toll in last year’s protests to 128
A total of 128 people died in the violent repression of opposition protests in Chad last year, the country's human...
Tunisia: Judicial harassment against former Parliamentary Speaker Rached Ghannouchi intensifies
Tunisia's former parliamentary speaker Rached Ghannouchi appeared in court Tuesday on new terror-related charges after...
Morocco: Appeals court reduces sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane but he is still in prison
A Moroccan appeals court halved the sentence of rights activist Rida Benotmane, jailed for social media posts calling...
Algeria arrests four over dissident who fled to France
Algerian authorities have placed four people in pre-trial detention over the "illegal" departure of wanted...
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...
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...
Tunisia: Attacks against trade union leaders could backfire on beleaguered President Kais Saied
Dozens of Tunisian civil society organisations,parties and political figures on Thursday voiced their "full support"...
Egypt keeps social media influencers in prison, along with 60,000 political prisoners
Egypt has extended the pre-trial detention of three TikTok comedians after their online sketch about a prison visit...
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...
Sahel: Niger holds activist in air strike case
The head of a leading campaign group in Niger has been detained in a case involving an army air strike on suspected...
Egypt: Under pressure from striking lawyers, regime releases jailed attorneys
Members of the Egyptian Bar Association on Sunday called off a days-long strike held in protest against the jailing of...
Egyptian regime releases businessmen Safwan and Seif El-Dine Thabet after 2 years in pretrial detention
Two leading Egyptian businessmen have been released after some two years in pretrial detention on terrorism-related...
Tunisia: Opposition figure Seifeddine Makhlouf sentenced to prison by military court for “insulting police
Plainclothes security officers in Tunisia detained a prominent critic of President Kais Saied in the early hours of...
Sahel: The dreadful Koro Toro prison and the brutality of the Chadian regime
By Ali Abba Kaya with Laura Diab and Thomas Gropallo in Libreville: Dehydrated and whipped by scorching winds as their...
Algerian: Independent journalist Ihsane el-Kadi still in prison
Rights group Amnesty International urged Algeria on Tuesday to immediately release prominent jailed journalist Ihsane...
Morocco: Euro Parliament concerned about press freedom in Morocco as kingdom denies corruption allegations
The European Parliament on Thursday condemned what it described as a decline in press freedom in Morocco, saying it...
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...
Algeria: Opposition figure Rachid Nekkaz freed from prison after he allegedly vowed to quit politics
An Algerian businessman and activist imprisoned for urging a boycott of the country's 2019 presidential election was...
Egypt: Businessman and fledgling actor Mohamed Ali gets life sentence in absentia for anti-Sisi campaign
An Egyptian military court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Spain-based critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to...
Algeria: Policeman kills boy during drug bust
An Algerian policeman shot a teenage boy who later died when a gang tried to stop officers during the latest in a...
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...
Tunisia: President on the offensive to eliminate the opposition
The main coalition against Tunisian President Kais Saied said Tuesday his administration was using the judiciary to...
Algeria’s political police arrest independent journalist El Kadi Ihsane
The Algerian political police secret services arrest the journalist El Kadi Ihsane and close the premises of the Radio...
Tunisia electoral board sues media outlets for “attacking dignity of voters”
Tunisian rights groups on Tuesday accused the electoral authority of "threatening" press freedom, after it sued...
Morocco sentences for migrants over Melilla tragedy ‘unjust’: rights group
A Moroccan rights group on Saturday slammed "unjust" punishments given to migrants sentenced over a mass attempted...
Tunisia deports migrants, rights group calls move “repressive and inhumane”
A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a "repressive and inhumane" government decision to deport a group of migrants...
Algeria: Activist Slimane Bouhafs sentenced to prison
An Algerian activist who had refugee status in Tunisia but was mysteriously returned to face trial in Algeria was...
Egypt: Businessman Mohamed al-Amin dies in prison
Egyptian businessman Mohamed el-Amin has died while serving a three-year sentence for trafficking and sexually...
Mali: Joliba TV resumes broadcasting after two month suspension by junta
Mali's communications authority said Thursday it had lifted the suspension of one of the Sahel country's main news...