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Algerian authorities continue to crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly five years after the Hirak protest movement first began, said Amnesty International in a press release. After the Hirak protest movement was halted due to Covid-19 in 2020, the Algerian authorities have stepped up their repression of peaceful dissent, targeting […]
Morocco ranked fifth in the list of African countries ready to effectively integrate AI into public services, according to the Oxford Institute AI readiness index. With an overall score of 43.34 out of 100, the Kingdom is becoming increasingly ready to embrace and implement the technology, according to the “Government AI Readiness Index 2023” report, […]
With the first summit on global Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation due in the autumn, experts and stakeholders call for African voices to be represented in forming the new rules – digital inequalities must not be exacerbated by Artificial Intelligence. The United Kingdom will host a global summit on safety in artificial intelligence in the autumn, […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists joins several other international organizations in denouncing Algerian authorities for extending the prison sentence against journalist Ihsane el-Kadi, calling for his immediate release. On Sunday, June 18, an appeals court in Algiers increased from five to seven years a sentence for el-Kadi, editor-in-chief and director of local independent broadcaster Radio […]
Moroccan rights watchdog has slammed the interference of Amnesty International with ongoing judiciary proceedings to influence a court case of man who died while he was in police custody in Benguerir on October 2022. The Inter-Ministerial Delegation for Human Rights (DIDH) has rebuked, in a statement, AI for drawing hasty conclusions in a case still […]
North American lawyers specializing in handling cybersecurity cases highlighted, Saturday in Tangier, the legal inadmissibility of the “pseudo-evidence” contained in reports by Citizen Lab, Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories regarding the alleged use of Pegasus software by some countries. This came at a hearing organized by Morocco’s Personal Data Protection Committee (CNDP) with the participation […]
Nineteen months after Morocco, victim of a “gigantic international destabilization enterprise”, filed a complaint against some French media and NGOs, which accused it of having used the spyware “Pegasus”, “no evidence has been provided to date”, Olivier Baratelli, lawyer of the Kingdom in France, said Friday in Paris. Speaking at a press conference on the […]
Several international human rights watchdogs have lately come under virulent criticism from various sides because of their biased and controversial reports. Like Human Rights Watch, whose broad, sweeping reports conveniently omit or forget about the other side of the ledger, Amnesty International is currently under heavy criticism for a controversial report it published Friday on […]
Algerian authorities must release immediately and drop all charges against several members of the Ahmadi minority religious group, who were arrested recently for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of religion, said Amnesty International in a press release issued over the weekend. On 6 June 2022, the First Instance Tribunal in Bejaia charged 24 members […]
Amnesty and Forbidden stories should apologize for their slander campaign against Morocco after the end of a ten-day deadline to provide evidence for their espionage accusations. Morocco was targeted by a hideous campaign by a media consortium led by French Le Monde, the Guardian and Washington Post accusing Rabat of espionage using spyware Pegasus but […]