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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEgyptian researchers must choose between forced exile and arrestThe Sisi regime’s authoritarian clamp-down on Egyptian academic freedom has left researchers with some stark choices
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionThe killing of Nizar Banat and authoritarianism in PalestineFor many in Palestine, the death of an activist in police custody highights that the dream of a Palestinian state has failed
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureTurkish spies are abducting Erdogan’s political opponents abroadEmboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSelahattin Demirtaş: the trial of the man who wanted to be Turkey’s presidentAfter more than four years of being held in a pre-trial detention that the ECHR ruled ‘unlawful’, Demirtaş is due to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: Opinion‘My father’s life is in danger for defending Bahrain’s freedom’Human rights advocate Ali Mushaima calls on the British government to stop using taxpayers’ money to fund a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn Turkey, two Facebook posts are enough to land you in jailIn a letter seen by openDemocracy Turkish Canadian PhD student Cihan Erdal says that he is a 'political hostage' -...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewThe hacker who lost his family and survived torture in Iraq’s secret prisonsI spoke to Ahmed Al-Ghaleb in January, as he prepared to make the perilous journey to Europe to seek asylum. He...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEgyptian student of gender and religion jailed for terrorism on visit homeCrackdown on freedoms is intensifying with the arrest of Ahmed Samir Santawy – the latest student to be locked up on...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe troubling case of Maâti Monjib highlights Morocco’s climate of repressionFor five years, the 60-year-old academic and journalist has been the subject of police persecution.
