A Tunis court is expected to issue a verdict in the prosecution of a television station broadcaster which aired the award-winning French-Iranian...
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Hunger striker Abdulhadi Alkhawaja to be retried in civilian court
Bahrain's Court of Cassation yesterday ordered a retrial in a civilian court for activist and hunger striker Abdulhadi Alkhawaja and twenty other...
Iran: Elderly revolutionary icon sentenced to eight years in jail
An 80-year old head of a banned opposition party in Iran has been ordered to serve eight years in prison. Ebrahim Yazdi, activist and former foreign...
The president of the Tunisian Pirate Party speaks
The Tunisian Pirate Party is an offshoot of the international anti-censorship movement and the political wing of the Takriz movement, a "street...
Lindsey Hilsum on Libya opening up
Channel 4’s Lindsey Hilsum on capturing the glorious moment when a repressive regime falls and people are able to tell their stories for the first time
Libya opens up
When a repressive regime falls, there is a glorious moment when people are able to tell their stories for the first time. I was lucky enough to hit...
Egyptians demand release of lawyer jailed in Saudi Arabia for insulting monarch
The detention of an Egyptian human rights lawyer shortly after his arrival in Saudi Arabia last week to perform Umrah (or lesser pilgrimage) has...
Egypt: Adel Imam blasphemy sentence dropped
A Cairo court today dismissed a three-month jail sentence handed down to popular comic actor Adel Iman, Al Ahram reports. Imam had faced jail after...
Time to stop doing business with Bahrain
Bahrainis still suffer with human rights abuse, torture and political imprisonment, says
Sara Yasin. Despite its supporters’ “astonishment”, it’s no wonder that the world was “hostile” to its Grand Prix
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas under fire for web censorship
UPDATE 27 April: Communications Minister Mashhour Abu Daka resigned yesterday, citing personal reasons. Abu Daka reportedly accused al-Mughni of...