First Independent Mena Newspaper
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International have condemned the Tunisian authorities’ prosecution and detention of prominent human rights lawyer Ahmed Souab, whose appeal trial is scheduled to open on February 12 at the Tunis Court of Appeal. Souab, a former administrative judge and long-standing critic of executive interference in the judiciary, was arrested on […]
Algeria, which had persecuted, chased and driven back manu-militari thousands of sub-Saharan migrants, is now mistreating Yemeni refugees who fled the war in their country. According to the human rights watchdog Amnesty International, Algerian authorities are holding seven Yemeni asylum seekers in “harsh and unsafe conditions” in a prison in Algiers and are threatening them […]