France urged to save free speech in Morocco
France has been urged to pressure Morocco into releasing citizens detained for free speech following another "outrageous" jailing of a...
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Tunisian authorities accused of conspiring against opposition
Tunisian opposition party, The National Salvation Front (NSFT) has warned that authorities are “conspiring against the opposition.” According to Middle...
Tunisian authorities “conspiring against” opposition, says party
Tunisian opposition party The National Salvation Front has said that the authorities are "conspiring against the opposition". According to Middle...
Algerian prosecutors seek 10 year sentence for writer
Algerian prosecutors have requested a ten-year prison sentence for French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, further escalating tensions with France, according to...
French-Algerian writer facing ten years in prison
Prosecuters in Algeria are seeking a ten year prison sentence for outspoken French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. As reported by The...
House Democrats demand release of Mahmoud Khalil
A group of Democrats from the US House of Representatives have called on the Trump administration to release pro-Palestinian protestor...
Chad extends detention of RFI journalist as crackdown continues
An RFI correspondent and a national TV journalist have been arrested in Chad in a move that has been condemned...
Morocco: Earthquake response critic has sentence increased
A court in Morocco has increased the prison sentence of activist Said Ait Mahdi for his critique of the country’s...
Morocco increases sentence for earthquake response critic
A Moroccan appeals court has handed activist Said Ait Mahdi a one-year prison term, up from the initial three-month term...
Trial of Tunisian opposition figures postponed
The trial of prominent Tunisian opposition leaders accused of conspiring against the state was postponed on March 4th until April...
Tunisia: controversial trial of political opponents to start
The trial for conspiracy against the State, in which forty including seven leading political opponents will appear, will start on...
Journalist Mohamed Boughalleb released in Tunisia
A Tunisian judge on February 20th released prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb, a critic of president Kais Saied, his lawyer told...
Social media posts lead to arrests in Algeria
Dozens more people have been arrested in Algeria after taking to social media to criticise the Algerian government, according to...
Dozens more arrested in Algeria over online posts
Dozens of people have been arrested in Algeria over online posts voicing their dissent against their country's regime. According to...
Spanish diplomats expelled from Western Sahara by Morocco
Two Spanish political parties are demanding an explanation after the Moroccan government expelled Spanish diplomats from the western Sahara on...
