Government abuse Bound

Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading "false information" relating to Covid-19, her sister and lawyers said. Seif's brother is jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent figure in the Arab Spring...

By Nina Larson - Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention indefinitely, dozens of countries told the UN on Friday. In a rare oral rebuke of Egypt at the United Nations Human Rights Council, 31 countries...

A Moroccan historian and rights activist who was jailed in January has begun a hunger strike, supporters and a legal representative said. Maati Monjib, 60, declared that he had begun the hunger strike on Thursday, a statement by his supporters said on Friday....

When Nadia told police about her husband's violence during a coronavirus lockdown in Tunisia, she nearly lost custody of her daughter, illustrating a chasm between a gender law and its enforcement. Adopted in 2017, the celebrated law greatly expanded the scope of...