Human Rights Bound

Sudan's army chief on Tuesday visited Egypt on his first trip abroad since the outbreak of war in April, with the latest violence killing dozens of civilians in battle-scarred Darfur.  As Abdel Fattah al-Burhan headed for talks with key ally Egyptian President Abdel...

An Algerian court on Tuesday sentenced an Algerian-Canadian researcher and Algerian journalist each to two years in prison, one of their lawyers said. Raouf Farrah, 36, and Mustapha Bendjama, 32, were convicted of publishing classified information by the court in the...

Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country's 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind bars, walked free from prison Saturday following a presidential pardon.  Douma, now 37, was a leading activist in the 2011 uprising that toppled...