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Morocco: Dozens of teachers sent to prison for protesting and “insulting a state body”F

Forty-five Moroccan teachers have been handed suspended prison sentences for attending unauthorised protests last year over a long-running contract dispute with the education ministry, their lawyer said Friday. The charges related to protests and strikes that have...
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Tunisia: Protest in Tunis over president’s “power grab” as economy worsensF

Thousands of Tunisian opposition supporters demonstrated Sunday in the capital against President Kais Saied's power grab and the economic crisis in the North African country. "Poverty has increased", and "Famine is at our doorsteps", they chanted as at least 2,000...
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Algeria wants to jail right activist Zaki Hannache over bogus charge of “apology for terrorism”F

An Algerian court on Thursday charged rights activist Zaki Hannache of "praising terrorism" and spreading "false news" and remanded him into custody, a rights group said.  Hannache, 32, was a prominent figure in the Hirak mass protest movement which forced veteran...
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Morocco: Journalist Soulaimane Raissouni gets five years in prisonF

Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Raissouni was jailed Wednesday for five years after appealing his sentence for indecent assault, despite prosecutors seeking a 10-year custodial term, according to an AFP correspondent.  The 49-year-old former editor of the now-defunct...
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