First Independent Mena Newspaper
UN Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders Mary Lawlor starts this Sunday a ten-day visit to Algeria to urge local authorities to respect freedom of speech and stop human rights violations. On this occasion, 12 NGOs, including the World Organization against Torture (OMCT), called on Ms. Lawlor to focus on the harassment and intimidation campaign […]
The Algerian regime has pushed its conspiracy theories to an absurd level as it continues to use domestic and foreign actors as scapegoats to blame for its self-inflicted authoritarian flaws which left its democracy-yearning youth impoverished and its economy heavily dependent on the price of the barrel. The regime is now evoking the “black decade” […]
Etienne Soropogui, a high profile political leader in Guinea Conakry, was arrested Saturday after slamming the ruling junta on a local popular radio station. The leader of Nos Valeurs Communes [Our Common Values] (NVC), according to his lawyer Salifou Béavogui, was collared by around 50 officers of the gendarmerie after he spoke on a show […]