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Algeria: HRW’s head of communication arrested, kicked out

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The head of communication of the US-based Human Rights Watch was expulsed out of Algeria Sunday after his detention early this month. Sidi M’Hamed court in Algiers charged the Moroccan journalist Ahmed Réda Benchemsi for entering the country illegally in view of rolling a foreign agenda. Benchemsi was arrested August 9 on the sidelines of […]
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French Court Rules in favour of Moroccan King’s Private Secretary

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A French court has ruled in favour of Mohamed Mounir El Majidi, the Private Secretary of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI in a blackmail case. The case dates back to the summer of 2012 when El Majidi had filed a lawsuit against Moroccan journalist Ahmed Reda Benchemsi for blackmailing him in a column published by French […]