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Tunisia’s Human Rights League urges Prime Minister to resign

Tunisia’s Human rights League, LTDH, Thursday called on Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi to step down few hours after a meeting between the two sides.   The call came in a statement issued by the organization without providing reasons for its call.   Mechichi hours before the statement, received an LTDH delegation to discuss the state […]

Tunisia: Customs foil attempt to smuggle 83 rifles

Customs officers from the Passenger Inspection Brigade, in collaboration with the X-ray detection team at the port of La Goulette, made a significant seizure of hunting rifles concealed within the trailer of a vehicle driven by a Tunisian citizen returning from Italy. The Tunisian General Directorate of Customs said in a statement that the vehicle’s […]

Outrage, Condemnation after Death of Journalist on Hunger Strike in Algeria

British-Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt passed away in coma following a hunger strike that he started in July 2006 after being jailed for sharing a poem about the Algerian President on Facebook. Tamalt was handed a two-year jail term on charges of “offending the president” and “defaming a public authority,” accusations that are typical of authoritarian […]