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Tunisia electoral board sues media outlets for “attacking dignity of voters”F

Tunisian rights groups on Tuesday accused the electoral authority of "threatening" press freedom, after it sued bloggers and media outlets for alleged violations during a poll on a new constitution. Last week, the ISIE elections authority filed 24 legal complaints...

Morocco sentences for migrants over Melilla tragedy ‘unjust’: rights groupF

A Moroccan rights group on Saturday slammed "unjust" punishments given to migrants sentenced over a mass attempted crossing into the Spanish enclave of Melilla that left at least 23 dead. Around 2,000 people, many of them Sudanese, stormed the frontier on June 24 in...

Tunisia deports migrants, rights group calls move “repressive and inhumane”F

A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a "repressive and inhumane" government decision to deport a group of migrants who had been evacuated from a defunct refugee camp. The 25 men from Egypt, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan had sought asylum in Tunisia after fleeing...

Algeria: Activist Slimane Bouhafs sentenced to prisonF

An Algerian activist who had refugee status in Tunisia but was mysteriously returned to face trial in Algeria was jailed Friday for three years on terror charges, a rights group said. Slimane Bouhafs "has been sentenced to three years in prison without parole" and a...

Egyptian court labels veteran human rights activists “terrorists”, sentences them to 15 years in prisonF

Mar 6, 2023

A special Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced four veteran human rights activists to prison terms up to 15 years for...

Tunisia in damage control campaign after president’s remarks on migrantsF

Feb 27, 2023

By Ezzedine Said: Tunisia's top diplomat sought to "reassure" sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, in an interview...

Sahel: Chad’s human rights commission puts death toll in last year’s protests to 128F

Feb 24, 2023

A total of 128 people died in the violent repression of opposition protests in Chad last year, the country's human...

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