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Morocco: Rights activist Maati Monjib to resume hunger strikeF

Moroccan historian and rights activist Maati Monjib said Wednesday he was again going on hunger strike to protest a ban on leaving the country.   "I am starting a hunger strike in protest at being prevented from travelling for medical treatment in France, where my...

Algeria: Regime’s war against civil society intensifiesF

A court in Algiers dissolved NGO and civil society organization Youth Action Rally (RAJ), causing uproar among opposition parties and rights organizations. The politically motivated court ruling essentially banned an organization that was largely involved in charity...

Libya: Italian captain given jail term for handing migrants to LibyaF

By Ella Ide, Alvise Armellini: A ship's captain who rescued a group of 101 migrants from the Mediterranean sea before handing them over to the Libyan coastguard has been given a one-year jail term, in the first such case heard by Italy's courts. Giuseppe Sotgiu was...

Egypt: Looming environment disaster in the Red SeaF

By Bassem Aboualabass: Standing on a boat bobbing gently in the Red Sea, Egyptian diving instructor Mohamed Abdelaziz looks on as tourists snorkel amid the brilliantly coloured corals, a natural wonder now under threat from climate change. "If they disappear, we'll...

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