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A growing number of Tunisian civilians have faced trial before military courts since President Kais Saied's July power grab, in some cases simply for criticising authorities, Amnesty International warned Wednesday. "In the past three months alone, the military justice...

A Tunisian city held a general strike on Wednesday, after a protester died of tear gas inhalation during angry demonstrations over the reopening of a rubbish dump. Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died early Tuesday in Aguereb, in the Sfax region on the central coast, after...

An Egyptian court is to issue a verdict on November 29 in the case of Hossam Bahgat, one of the country's most prominent rights advocates who is being tried over a tweet. At the conclusion of his trial on Tuesday Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for...

By Ezzedine Said A military coup in Sudan has dealt another blow to democracy in the Arab world, months after a power grab by the president of Tunisia, where the 2011 Arab uprisings were born. For some, the latest setbacks spell the end of the democratic experiment in...