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Young demonstrators raise a placard reading in Arabic ''Freedoms, the police state is over'' during the annual ''Rights and Freedoms'' march organized by the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights (French: LTDH) to mark the 77th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, also known as Human Rights Day, in Tunis, Tunisia, on December 13, 2025.
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Tunisia's main rights group says operations suspended

Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights, one of the oldest rights groups in Africa and the Arab world

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25 April, 2026
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Hiam Abbass says 'cinema is a political act' after Berlin row

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15 February, 2026
A veiled Iranian woman holds a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and waves a country flag as she participates in a ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution at the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini in the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in southern Tehran, Iran, on February 1, 2026
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Almost 140 foreigners arrested in central Iran over protests

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Algerian anti-government protesters take to the streets of the capital Algiers as the "Hirak" pro-democracy movement gathers renewed momentum after a year-long hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, on February 26, 2021.
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Algeria jails prominent Hirak activist to five years

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12 November, 2025
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