The harsh criticism that met the Egyptian newly-ratified anti-terror law has been described as “a lack of accurate analysis” by foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abou Zeid on Wednesday. He claimed that the law was tailored according to the Egyptian reality but revealed that the law drew inspiration from the U.S Patriot Act and the British […]
The UK Foreign Affairs Committee has labelled Saddek Elkaber, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) “well-known financier of militias and gangsters” who runs a “troubled organization.” The committee’s bashing of the Libyan official comes after a meeting between Elkaber and Governor of Bank of England Andrew Bailey in July, Libya Update reports. […]
The New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the Algerian regime to immediately release freelance journalist and blogger Mourad At-Mimou and stop targeting journalists for their online commentary. Algerian plainclothes police officers arrested At-Mimou on July 7, while he was at a café in Tizi-Ouzou, in northern Algeria’s Kabylia region, according to a […]
