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17 March 2009
Syrian writer Habib Saleh has been sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing the country's government in a series of articles published on the internet.
06 March 2009
Lawyer and former prisoner of conscience Mohamed Abbou has been denied permission to leave Tunisia for the seventh time since his release from prison in July 2007.
27 February 2009
Kurdish student Hana Abdi was released from prison on Thursday after spending nearly 16 months in detention.
20 February 2009
Criticism of government policy on Gaza a new red line for freedom of expression in Egypt.
11 February 2009
Philip Rizk was taking part in a march in Cairo, to express solidarity with civilians affected by the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
05 February 2009
Those sentenced were accused of leading unrest against unemployment and high living
costs in the phosphate-rich Gafsa region of south-east Tunisia earlier
in 2008.
23 December 2008
The Iranian authorities have forced the closure of the Centre for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Tehran, co-founded by 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin E
18 December 2008
Peace activists in Israel and around the world are participating in a day of action to call on Israeli authorities to release
teenagers imprisoned for refusing to ser
16 December 2008
Twenty-two people were sentenced on Monday by an emergency court in
Egypt for their involvement in the violent protests of Mahalla, north
of Cairo, in April 2008.
15 December 2008
The Libyan authorities have allowed political reform activist Idriss
Boufayed to travel to Switzerland to seek medical treatment for cancer.
15 December 2008
A court in Tunisia has handed down sentences of up to 10 years'
imprisonment against 33 workers and trade union activists after an
unfair trial.
09 December 2008
Ahmed Seif El-Islam Hamad is one of the defence lawyers for
49 people who are being tried for alleged involvement in popular protests on 6 April 2008 in
support of i
04 December 2008
A trade union leader and 37 others face trial in Tunisia on Thursday,
accused of fomenting unrest during protests earlier this year in the
Gafsa region.
26 November 2008
The Court of Appeals in Algiers upheld the conviction of a prominent
human rights lawyer, Amine Sidhoum, on Wednesday.
30 October 2008
Twelve members of the opposition coalition the Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change are convicted of "weakening national sentiment.
08 October 2008
Twelve people are charged with "weakening national sentiment" for attending a meeting of the Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change.
18 September 2008
The Court of Appeal in Agadir, Morocco,
has overturned the two-year sentence imposed on blogger Mohamed Erraji.
26 June 2008
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International members and supporters are taking action around the world.
20 May 2008
Amnesty International has urged the Head of the Judiciary in Iran to ensure that appeals hearings against the recent convictions and
sentences of six women’s ri
