Moroccan activist gets jail sentence extended
Saida El Alami, a Moroccan human rights activist currently serving a three-year jail term, has been handed an additional two-year...
Human rights
Teacher jailed in Morocco for accusing police of sex crimes?
A female striking teacher has been singled out by a Moroccan court and sentenced to a prison term after what...
Tunisian students face prison for song criticizing police
Following a recent crackdown on freedom of speech in Tunisia, two students were recently detained without bail over a satirical...
Tunisia’s Ghannouchi Detention Shifts Focus
Tunisian president’s purge of journalists, writers, activists and anyone who dares to comment about his style of governance might be...
ICC court issues secret arrest warrants for Libya crimes
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the United Nations Security Council on May 11th that the court has...
Algeria and France delve into their dark colonial history
Algeria and France may well be set for a gargantuan collision as both countries take the tentative steps to examine...
Shocking Child Rape Sentences Spark Outrage
A child rape case, involving three men, is causing a storm in Morocco, not so much for its heinous details,...
Pressure on EU soars after yet another migrant boat tragedy
A cluster of EU officials and commissioners are in the middle of meetings with the Tunisian government after the country's...
African Refugee Racism Surge in Tunisia
‘We need evacuation, Tunisia is not safe, there’s no future here when you have this color, it is a crime...
Fleeing African migrants from Tunisia perish at sea, 14 dead
The latest crackdown on illegal African migrants in Tunisia which has made headlines of late has claimed its first victims....
IMF drops Tunisia rescue plan over Saied migrant purge
Tunisia continues to fall into a deeper black hole of economic and political calamity, much of its own making, with...
Tunisian Opposition Urges Removal of Saied
The head of the National Salvation Front in Tunisia, Ahmed Najib Chebbi, said on Sunday 5th March that the country...
Saied defends expulsions of African migrants from Tunisia
Tunisia's president Kais Saied has denounced racism and pointed to possible legal consequences for perpetrators 10 days after announcing a clampdown on irregular...
Saied begins crackdown on African migrants in Tunisia
Since Tunisia’s president announced a crackdown on illegal immigration last week using language the African Union denounced as racialised, Malian...
Tunisia Dissidents Face Escalating Crackdown
Tunisian police arrest two prominent dissidents Issam Chebbi and Chaima Issa amid a growing crackdown on critics of President Kais...
