The prosecutor of al-Arish in northeastern Egypt released three people on a bail of LE50 each yesterday. The three were arrested in a demonstration in the city last Friday and accused of resisting the authorities and assaulting policemen
Hundreds of Yemeni veterans and revolutionary fighters demonstrated yesterday in front of the presidential office to protest their meager wages and discrimination
Five Algerian associations for the families of missing persons and terrorist victims rejected the idea of a general amnesty proposed by President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika, along with the referendum he intends to hold on the subject
Iraqi Christians threatened to file a petition before international courts complaining that thousands of them were prevented from voting in the region of Nineveh in northern Iraq
In its main newscast, NBC broadcast a fatwa issued by Dr. Abd al-Aziz al-Fawzan, an assistant professor of Islamic jurisprudence at the University of Imam Mohammed Bin Saud Islamic University
In a statement released yesterday, the Mauritanian Human Rights Monitor revealed the names of army and police officers involved in torturing detainees at the barracks in Wad al-Naqa
The Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate expressed its shock over a ruling issued by a Court of First Instance in the country's capital of Sana'a, sentencing a writer and the editor of the independent al-Huriya al-Ahliya to two years in prison and shutting down the newspaper for one year on charges of insulting the regime
Yesterday, the committee supervising municipal elections in the Saudi capital of Riyadh prevented two journalists from entering polling precincts on the first day for electoral candidates to register.
Amnesty International said that a decision by the People's Appellate Court to uphold ten sentences, including two death sentences, is anther blow to freedom of expression and the freedom to form and join associations in Libya
On November 25, 2004 , the Helwan Misdemeanors First District Court ruled in Case No. 1526/2004 and sentenced three police officers with the Helwan police department to one year in prison with hard labor and a fine of LE3,000
Yesterday, the trial of those charged with attempting to overthrow Mauritanian President Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya's regime continued, even after defense attorneys withdrew to protest an action taken by the judge against his colleague, thus raising questions about the credibility of the trial
Nouakchott is witnessing a broad debate in legal, political, and media circles over the truth of information recently leaked from inside the Wad al-Naqa military prison
