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CPJ calls on Algerian authorities to release veteran journalist Saad Bouakba

The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Algerian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release veteran columnist Saad Bouakba, who was arrested on November 27 for comments on independence war. He is facing charges of defaming late President Ahmed Ben Bella. Bouakba was arrested in Algiers after Mahdia Ben Bella, daughter of Algeria’s first […]

Italy: Activists slam EP’s interference in Morocco’s internal affairs as ‘illegitimate’, ‘inadmissible’

The Moroccan-Italian Human Rights Organization (OIMDU) has strongly condemned the interference of the European Parliament (EP) in the internal affairs of Morocco as “illegitimate” and “inadmissible”. OIMDU President Abdellah Khezraji stressed that this is an “irresponsible” drift on the part of some entities angered by the remarkable influence of the Kingdom at the regional and […]

Mauritania’s President Challenges Washington to Produce Alleged Secret Agreement with al Qaeda

Mauritanian President has called on Washington to produce evidence of the alleged secret deal between Nouakchott and the al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on a truce during which the terrorist group would cease abductions and militancy in Mauritania for a renewable one-year period, and in return, Mauritania would release all al Qaeda prisoners. The […]