Sonia Dahmani, a Tunisian lawyer and media figure was sentenced to one year in prison over comments critical of the country, according to her family over the weekend.
Dahmani was arrested on May 11 after masked police raided the Tunisian national bar association, where she had sought refuge, and detained her following comments she had made on TV.
The comments in question were made during a program on the Carthage Plus
TV channel, while Dahmani was responding to another pundit's claim that
sub-Saharan migrants were seeking to settle in Tunisia.
Lawyers for Abir Moussi, leader of Tunisia’s Free Constitutional Party, have launched an appeal against charges that could lead
Russia is strengthening ties with eastern Libyan warlord General Haftar to disrupt European energy supplies and expand its influence in
France expressed growing alarm Friday over the detention of French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria. The 75-year-old novelist, a vocal
A new report published by the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team for Somalia warns, that the Islamic State’s Somali branch,
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