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Rights defenders outraged at hefty Algerian sentence against novelist Sansal

Algerian-French novelist Boualem Sanal was sentenced to five years in prison, in a verdict that was denounced by the French president, the political class, intellectuals, and independent human rights defenders. Sansal, 80, was arrested in November upon his landing from France where he had given an interview mentioning that parts of current western Algeria had […]

Tunisia hands death penalty to murderer of police officer killed in 2017

A court in Tunisia sentenced to death a takfiri for the murder of Commandant Riadh Barrouta killed in a stabbing attack back in 2017 at Bardo Museum in capital Tunis. The country’s specialized criminal chamber for terrorist cases also handed to the accused life in prison sentence for attempting to kill another police officer, Mohsen […]

Egypt: PM Ismail’s government sworn in, more old faces than new

A new Egyptian government led by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, the petroleum minister in the former government, was sworn in on Saturday. The new cabinet features almost half of the ministers that were in Mahlab’s government. The government is expected to be short-lived because a new government would be announced before the end of the […]