Covert testimonies reveal sexual assaults on male and female activists
They’d choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite … … then the officer would take one of them from the cell to...
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Egypt has days to save jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s life, Amnesty chief warns
Amnesty International’s head on Sunday warned that the proceedings of COP27 in Egypt could be stained by the death of one of the country’s leading...
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France says Iran now holding five French nationals
Issued on: 11/10/2022 – 10:40 France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday five of its nationals were being held in Iran and the European Union had...
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Iran airs ‘staged’ confession video of French couple accused of spying
Issued on: 06/10/2022 – 15:38 Iranian state television aired a video on Thursday in which two French citizens detained for “spying” in May are shown...
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UK-US environmentalist held on spy charges temporarily released from Iranian jail
Issued on: 27/07/2022 – 14:53 Morad Tahbaz, an environmental campaigner with UK and US citizenship held in Iran on espionage charges, has been temporarily released...
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Trial of WNBA star Brittney Griner sparks fears that Russia is collecting political pawns
As US basketball player Brittney Griner stands trial in Russia accused of drug smuggling, a growing number of other foreign nationals are also imprisoned in harsh conditions....
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Prominent Egyptian dissident Abdel Fattah launches hunger strike in prison
Issued on: 05/04/2022 – 05:24 Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a key figure in the country’s 2011 revolution, began a hunger strike in prison over...
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Navalny top aide: ‘Putin shortened his time in power when he went to war in Ukraine’
Issued on: 29/03/2022 – 19:44Modified: 29/03/2022 – 19:45 Leonid Volkov, a top aide to jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, spoke to FRANCE 24 from the...
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Freed activist Ramy Shaath says ‘arbitrary detentions’ on the rise in Egypt
Issued on: 28/01/2022 – 18:52 FRANCE 24 spoke to Ramy Shaath, an Egytian-Palestinian activist who spent two and half years in jail in Egypt on accusations...
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Iranian court sentences Frenchman to eight years in prison on spying charges
Issued on: 25/01/2022 – 14:59 An Iranian court sentenced Benjamin Brière, a Frenchman, to eight years in prison on spying charges on Tuesday. His Paris-based lawyer...
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Loved ones fear for Frenchman detained in Iran for ‘spying’
Almost two years ago, Benjamin Brière was accused of spying while visiting Iran on holiday and imprisoned in the northeast of the country. Since then...
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Cairo court sentences Egyptian revolution activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in prison
Issued on: 20/12/2021 – 15:52 Egypt on Monday sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to five years in jail with...