Human Rights Bound

A Moroccan court on Thursday sentenced journalist and rights activist Omar Radi -- already imprisoned on charges of espionage and rape -- to a three-month suspended sentence for "public drunkenness", his lawyer said. Fellow journalist Imad Stitou, 32, received the...

By Kaouthar Oudrhiri: A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi to six years in jail on charges of espionage and rape, stirring condemnation from rights groups.  Radi's trial opened in June last year, just days after rights...

By Mona Salem Egypt on Sunday freed six activists including journalist Esraa Abdel-Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 revolution, just days after Washington warned Cairo over a crackdown on rights activists. Since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2014, the...

A Moroccan judge on Tuesday took the trial of journalist and rights activist Omar Radi behind closed doors, a move his supporters slammed as "a new violation". Radi has been in detention for almost a year on charges of espionage and rape which he denies. The judge in...