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A former Algerian policeman who joined the country's protest movement was sentenced on Thursday to two years in jail, a prisoners' rights group said. Toufik Hassani was convicted of "threatening police agents" and "divulging professional secrets on Facebook",...

A journalist jailed for his coverage of mass protests in Algeria must be released, United Nations independent experts said on Wednesday. Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on Tuesday as a crackdown on dissent intensifies after a year of anti-government...

The sexual assault and murder of a boy in the Moroccan city of Tangiers has stirred calls for the death penalty for the "monster" who killed the child. A suspect, a 24-year-old man working in the huge industrial zone of the port city, appeared before a prosecutor on...

Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was jailed for two years on appeal Tuesday, a defence lawyer said, in a case seen as a barometer of press freedom in the North African country.  Drareni, 40, has been in custody since March and was sentenced in August to three years...