In a series of surprise operations, coastal communities in Morocco have been experiencing the forceful destruction of...
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Mauritania: Christian group released from detention, expelled from Mauritania
Media sources report that 15 Christians leaders and their families who were arrested by Mauritania at the end of...
Tunisia: Journalist Zied El-Heni released from jail, gets six-month suspended sentence
Tunisian journalist El-Heni was released from prison on Wednesday, 10 January 2024, but he was given a six-month...
Jailed Algerian pro-democracy activists in hospital amid hunger strike
Three Algerian activists awaiting trial in prison were rushed to hospital Tuesday, 10 days after they began a hunger...
Egypt: How Egypt is tormenting jailed journalists
A freelance Egyptian journalist who worked for pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and was arrested on false news and...
Algeria: Walid Kechida gets three years in prison for political satire
A supporter of Algeria's Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail Monday for satirical social media...
Egypt: Anger in Rome after Egypt cleared policemen in Giulio Regeni murder case
The Italian government has described as "unacceptable" a decision by Egypt's public prosecutor to clear five police...
Algeria and Morocco continue to repress journalists and rights activists
Algerian regime wants to punish activist Amira Bouraoui Algerian prosecutors have requested a tougher two-year jail...
Algeria: Journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche faces heightened judicial harassment
An Algerian journalist was released from prison Wednesday only to return directly to court for hearings in two other...
Egypt: Religious minorities vulnerable as court acquits men who attacked Christian woman
An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday three defendants who stripped and dragged an elderly Coptic Christian woman...
Egypt’s collective punishment of inmates
Human Rights Watch accused Egypt Thursday of imposing punitive conditions on hundreds of inmates at one of its most...
Libya: 18 foreign fishermen released from warlord Haftar’s prisons
Eighteen fishermen including eight Sicilians who were held in Libya for more than three months have been freed,...
Egypt and Italy appear to abandon the pursuit of truth in murder of Guilio Regeni in Egypt
Egypt is to "temporarily close" its investigation into the murder in Cairo of Italian student Guilio Regeni, for which...
Egypt arrests photographer because he took this photo of Salma al-Shimi
Egyptian police have detained a photographer for disrespect after he shot images of a dancer in ancient costume at the...
Sahel: 42 human rights demonstrators arrests in Nouakchott
Police have arrested 42 people in Mauritania, rights groups and police said Sunday, after a protest demanding justice...
Podcast: Tunisia faces a chaotic situation, as economic woes could derail political progress
Transcript Tunisia is a boiling cauldron. It is certain that the Covid-19 epidemic is having a drastic...
Tunisia is still using repressive laws to punish freedom of speech
Amnesty International on Monday urged authorities in Tunisia to stop using "largely outdated, overly broad and...
Egypt on a killing spree: 49 people executed by the government in 10 days
Egypt executed 49 prisoners in just 10 days in October, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for authorities to...
Libya: Another rogue official arrested in Libya for human trafficking
Libya's UN-recognised government on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former coastguard wanted by Interpol and under...
Algeria: Islamo-conservatives on the attack, unite in their disdain for minority languages and secularism
Algerian extremist court punishes man for his religious views, more human rights abuses by conservative judges An...
Finally Egypt does the right thing: it released journalist Basma Mostafa
Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the country's south,...
Egypt arrests journalist Basma Mostafa just for reporting on anti-Sisi protests
6 October Update Egypt's prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a journalist days after she was arrested in the...
Egypt: More death sentences in Egypt over murder of police agents
An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced six people allegedly belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood...
Tunisia: President Kais Saied shows his real self, backs use of death-by-hanging in murder cases
Tunisia's President Kais Saied has said he backs capital punishment, after public outrage over a woman's murder...
Egypt: At least one protester killed by police in south of Cairo
On Saturday, family and medical sources said a man was killed in clashes between protesters and police in a village...
Algeria intensifies judicial harassment of Hirak activists
Since the sentencing of journalist Khaled Drareni and the re-arrest of Mohamed Laalami, several political activists...
Libya: Amnesty Intl catalogs horrific abuses on migrants in Libya
Amnesty International on Thursday urged the EU to reconsider cooperation with Libya over "horrific abuses" of refugees...
Algeria: United Nations independent experts pressuring Algeria to release wrongly jailed journalist
A journalist jailed for his coverage of mass protests in Algeria must be released, United Nations independent experts...
Algeria: Government-controlled court sentences journalist Drareni to two years in prison
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen...
Libya: Police in Al-Marj open fire on civilians who were protesting economic despair
Protesters in Libya's second city Benghazi set fire to the headquarters of the parallel eastern administration...
The Algerian regime does it again: it blocks Internet access for the whole country to secure a pointless high-school exam
Algerians were unable to access social media accounts on Sunday as students sat national exams in the North African...
Sahel: Chad regime targets newspapers with forced closure
Chad's paramount media authority has suspended 12 newspapers for three months for failing to conform with a 2018 law,...
Egypt’s brutal and punitive judicial system
Egyptian human rights groups on Saturday accused the authorities of "recycling" judicial cases against dissidents to...
Algeria: Two political prisoners go on hunger strike
(Photo: Poet Mohamed Tadjadit) Two jailed activists from Algeria's anti-government "Hirak" protest movement have been...
Libya’s GNA fires Interior and Defense Ministers after violence against protesters
Tripoli, Aug 29, 2020 - The head of Libya's unity government on Saturday appointed a new defence minister and army...
The Algerian regime now sends poets to prison
The Algerian regime is gripped by fear that the anti-government Hirak movement reignites. Mass arrests have...
Algeria’s repressive courts sentence journalist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to prison on bogus charges
Algiers, Aug 24, 2020 - An Algerian journalist was sentenced Monday to two years in prison, his lawyer told AFP, in...
Egypt: Another senior opposition figure dies in Egyptian prison
Cairo, Aug 13, 2020 - A senior leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood died Thursday in an Egyptian prison where he...
Mali security forces used excessive force against protesters
Bamako, Aug 12, 2020 - Security forces in Mali used excessive force in response to violent anti-government protests in...
Generalized repression in the Arab world
Repressive Arab regimes are taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to crack down on the opposition, freedom of...
Egypt carries out death sentence on people accused of killing police officer
Cairo, July 28, 2020 - Egypt has executed seven people over the killing of a police officer in the northeastern city...
Egypt attacks female online media personalities, five of them sentenced to prison
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced five female social media influencers to two years in jail each on charges of...
Moroccan court orders journalist Soulaimane Raissouni to stay in prison
Rabat, July 20, 2020 - A Moroccan court has ordered that the chief editor of Moroccan independent daily Akhbar...