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Physical Assault on Hemma AlHemami in Tunisia Airport After an Interview with AlJazeera and France

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, ANHRI, strongly condemns the assault against Hemma AlHemami, the secretary general of the Tunisian Communist party, in Tunisia airport on 29/9/2009 ,arriving from

Libya: Prisoners strike in Jadida prison, families hold sit-in

Alkarama received news of a large prison strike of prisoners inside Tripoli's Jadida prison.

Yemen: Journalist, Mohamad Al-Magaleh, enforced disappearance

In the past, Mr. Al-Magaleh had repeatedly been arrested and detained incommunicado without legal process by Political security forces (Al-Amn Assiyassi), before being released several months later without having had

Algeria: Malik Medjnoune, arbitrarily detained for 10 years, still no trial

Today, September 28, 2009, 10 years have passed since the day Malik Medjnoune was abducted near his home in Tizi-Ouzou by the Algerian secret services of the Department of Intelligence

Blogger given offer in exchange for pen, principles, beliefs and conscience.

The blogger was questioned about the up-coming rally which is to take place in October in accordance with the Muslim Brotherhood and El-Ghad party. Fares denied knowing anything about the

Wave of Labor Unrest Grips Egypt at Crucial Juncture

The warehouses of the Tanta Flax and Oil Co. are quiet, the machines covered with dust. In the silence, Hisham Abu Zaid has found a power unlike anything he has

Shehata: Improving the human rights situation is no longer on the government’s agenda

MP Gamal Shehata, member of the MB Parliamentary bloc, stressed that he doesn't think the government would endorse new laws to improve the human rights situation in the next parliamentary

Ongoing tensions waged between security forces and the Sinai Bedouin

In a strongly worded statement, they asserted that " Injustice has exceeded all the limits of tolerable thresholds it is evident that the governing authority views us as inferior.

UN: Christian extremist LRA ‘still a threat’

Ugandan Christian extremist rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have been weakened by recent attacks but remain a threat, a UN military source said Thursday.

Oppression extinguished Tunisia’s light

After its independence in 1956, Tunisia was considered in several western capitals to be one of the most serious candidates for democracy. Its first president, Habib Bourguiba, invested far more