Tunisian lawyers have condemned what they called "judicial harassment" of political commentator Mourad Zeghidi, held since last year, with his defense committee telling a press conference on Wednesday that Zeghidi was being detained to "intimidate" critics of President Kais Saied. Many critics of the current president have been prosecuted and detained under Decree 54, a law Saied enacted in 2022 to prohibit "spreading false news". According to the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT), the decree has been used to prosecute more than 60 journalists, lawyers and opposition figures.
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Supporters close to French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal said on Saturday that he had "given up his right to appeal&
Speaking on the sidelines of the 23rd Islamic Financial Stability Forum, held this week in Rabat, Ghiath Shabsigh, Sec-Gen of
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have formed the Alliance of Agricultural Seed Producers of the Sahel (APSA-Sahel) to reduce reliance
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