Government abuse Bound

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...

Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source said, in the latest cases of what rights campaigners have labelled "a horrifying execution spree". Capital punishment for civilian convicts in Egypt, the most populous Arab...

The Moroccan authorities dispatched police reinforcement to the northern city of Fnideq, where protests have erupted over social and economic despair among the population. Moroccan media reported rallies as having erupted because of the closure of the border with the...

Kherrata, Algeria, Feb 16, 2021 (AFP) - Several thousand Algerians rallied in a northern town Tuesday, almost two years since the start of the "Hirak" protests which swept former strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. Demonstrators brandished Algerian and Berber...