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.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah have firmly rejected recent proposals from U.S. President Donald
Egypt has returned to the international debt market with its first U.S. dollar-denominated bond issuance in nearly two years,
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has identified 495 Moroccan nationals in its “non-detained docket” (NDD) who are
The prosecutor general's office has revealed that Libya has arrested two people accused of detaining and torturing some
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