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Tag: HRW
Algeria: HRW Calls for Release of Peaceful Protesters & Respect of Freedom Speech & Assembly
Human Rights Watch has called on the Algerian authorities to release immediately and unconditionally the peaceful activists and respect the rights to free speech and ... Read More
Algeria: HRW’s head of communication arrested, kicked out
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 ... Read More
Morocco reiterates calls by international right NGOs for a halt of violations in Tindouf camps
Morocco welcomed the actions taken by international rights watchdogs with regard to the blatant violations committed in the Algerian territory by the Polisario militia. Spokesman ... Read More
Kuwait hands Cairo over eight Egyptians allegedly linked to Muslim Brotherhood
Kuwait has extradited a group of eight Egyptians suspected of having ties with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, outlawed by the Egyptian government as a terror ... Read More
Morocco to respond to HRW’s 2019 Erroneous report
The Moroccan Inter-ministerial Delegation for Human Rights (DIDH) said it will get in touch with Human Rights Watch to denounce its politically-motivated positions and deflate ... Read More
Forty Human Rights Defenders Missing in Egypt – HRW
In Egypt, at least 40 rights workers, activists and lawyers have been rounded up by authorities since late October and are being held in "undisclosed ... Read More
Algerian Activist Gets One Year Sentence for Criticizing Government on Facebook
Amazigh activist Salim Yezza received a one year suspended sentence after he criticized on Facebook the Algerian government’s treatment of minorities. Yezza criticized the authorities’ ... Read More
HRW Slams EU Decision to Allow Libyan Coast Guards Handle African Migrants
Human Rights Watch denounced on Wednesday the European Union decision to entrust the Libyan coast guards with the task of managing the waves of illegal ... Read More
HRW Slams Algeria again for ‘inhumane treatment of migrants’
Human Rights Watch rebuked Algeria for deporting Sub-Saharan migrants in inhumane conditions, and in many cases without considering their legal status in Algeria or their ... Read More
Algeria Continues Arbitrary Deportation of Migrants , HRW
Human rights watchdogs are continuing lambasting Algerian authorities for the mistreatment of migrants on Algerian soil and the arbitrary deportation of hundreds of them in ... Read More