Tunisie protests

Covid-19: Moroccan courts hold videoconference hearings

Moroccan courts resorted to holding hearings via video conferences allowing defendants to see proceedings in a courtroom attended only by judges and lawyers as a protective measure against the coronavirus. Moroccan prison administration has already decided not to let inmates out to attend court hearings for fears of contagion after cases were found in jails. […]

CAR: ex-soccer boss and militia leader sentenced for war crimes by ICC

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced former Central African Republic (CAR) football chief Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona to 12 years in prison for 28 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the country’s 2013–2014 civil war. His co-accused, former MP and militia commander Alfred “Rambo” Yekatom, received a 15-year sentence for 20 counts, […]

In Tunisia: Here They Go Again On Their Own

The January 14 ouster of Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia set off a wave of popular uprisings in the Middle East, the most significant change in more than thirty years. The last time the Middle East saw such monumental shifts was in 1979, when the ouster of the Shah in Iran, the Soviet invasion of […]