MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH
An Egyptian court has sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges including murder, a defence lawyer said, in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on […]
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NIGER EXTRADITES GADDAFI’s SON SAADI
Niger has extradited Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi to the Libyan capital Tripoli, the Libyan government has said. The third son of the former Libyan leader is being held in Hadaba Prison […]
MARCH 14 CALLS ON STL TO PROBE MORE ASSASSINATIONS
The March 14 bloc handed a petition Thursday to United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly demanding that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigate the assassinations of Lebanese officials, a U.N. spokesperson confirmed. “The March 14 […]
STL ADJOURNS HARIRI TRIAL UNTIL MID-MAY
The joint trial of five members of Hezbollah accused of taking part in the Hariri assassination will be postponed until at least the middle of May, the court announced Wednesday. The […]
EGYPT PUTS THREE AL JAZEERA JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL
Egypt put three Al Jazeera journalists on trial on charges of aiding members of a “terrorist organization”, in a case that human rights groups say shows the authorities are trampling […]
COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FROM 1955 TO PRESENT
The National Constituent Assembly started to review candidates for the Truth and Dignity Commission, a body created by the transitional justice law to investigate human rights violations dating from 1955. […]
MORSI FACES COURT OVER EGYPT PRISON BREAK
Egypt’s toppled president, Mohamed Morsi, has appeared in court in Cairo to face charges linked to the 2011 escape of more than 20,000 inmates from Egyptian prisons. Also charged are members of […]
HOSNI MUBARAK SONS and EX-PM ACQUITTED IN CORRUPTION TRIAL
An Egyptian court has acquitted the former president Hosni Mubarak’s two sons and his last prime minister of corruption charges. The Cairo criminal court found Gamal and Alaa Mubarak and Ahmed […]
TUNISIA ADOPTS COMPENSATION LAW FOR BEN ALI VICTIMS
Tunisia’s parliament early Sunday adopted a “transitional justice” law designed to compensate victims of the former regimes of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Habib Bourguiba, official media said. The […]
EGYPT’S MORSI CHARGED WITH ‘TERRORIST ACTS’
Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Morsi will stand trial on charges of “conspiring with foreign groups” to commit “terrorist acts.” Morsi, toppled by the military in July, is already on trial […]
