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Egypt has detained three men after a video clip allegedly showing one of them singing and dancing at a mosque went viral online, the prosecutor's office said. In the footage, a man can be seen dancing, jumping and singing with a microphone in a mosque to a song by...

A Tunisian military court upheld a one-year prison sentence Friday against a prominent critic of President Kais Saied convicted of "attacking the dignity of the army", his lawyer told AFP. The Tunis Military Court of Appeal also banned Seifeddine Makhlouf, head of...

The head of a news website close to Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party has been arrested over alleged links to a company accused of conspiring against the state, his lawyer said Friday.  Lotfi Hidouri, editor in chief of Achahed, was placed in custody on...

Egyptian activist Mona Seif announced Wednesday that she had begun a hunger strike in solidarity with her jailed brother Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has reportedly gone for 75 days without food. Abdel Fattah, a key figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled longtime Egyptian...