Algeria: The Arab Spring’s Late Bloomer?
By Inès Osman. Originally published on The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy on February 9, 2021. When protests started throughout the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, observers seemed to keep wondering: why are Algerians not protesting? But this is not entirely true. In 2010, nearly 10,000 localized protests […]
Coalition of NGOs urges US and EU ambassadors to call on the Egyptian authorities to remove prisoners of conscience, Ramy Shaath and Ziad el Eleimy, from Egypt’s terrorist entities list
On February 9, 2021, MENA Rights Group and a coalition of human rights organisations and lawyers submitted a letter to the embassies of the United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom, condemnings Egypt’s application of the “terrorist entities list” designation as a means to stifle freedom of speech. The letter is issued […]