Government changes visa rules to prevent seven rights groups visiting Bahrain next week
CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
TV boss ordered to pay fine over Persepolis broadcast
The Court of First Instance of Tunis today ordered Nabil Karoui, boss of Nessma TV, to pay a fine of 2,400 Tunisian Dinars (961 GBP) over the...
Why I won’t be going to Bahrain next week
The Bahraini government has a funny definition of transparency. Despite flowery invitations made during my last visit to the troubled country, an...
Verdict due in Persepolis trial – key test of free expression in Tunisia
A Tunis court is expected to issue a verdict in the prosecution of a television station broadcaster which aired the award-winning French-Iranian...
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...