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A Tunis court issued the verdict against Sonia Dahmani on Friday, over comments she made about the country's prisons.
Tunisia
MENA
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Prominent Tunisian lawyer gets new jail term

A Tunis court issued the verdict against Sonia Dahmani on Friday, over comments she made about the country's prisons.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 May, 2026
SUDAN- EGYPT
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt 'terrorising and deporting' Sudanese refugees back to war

Nadda Osman
20 May, 2026
Israel death penalty law
Israel
MENA
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Israel joins MENA execution states after enforcing death penalty

Nadda Osman
18 May, 2026
A Palestinian child holds a placard demanding an end to the death penalty imposed on Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, 12 May 2026.
Palestinian prisoners
MENA
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UN calls for probe into abuse of Palestinian detainees

The New Arab Staff
17 May, 2026
Itamar Ben Gvir-noose
Israel
MENA
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How Israel's 7 October law differs from Ben-Gvir's death penalty

Naif Zaydani
12 May, 2026
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Tunisia
MENA
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UN urges Tunisia to end repression of civil society, media

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 May, 2026
A portrait of Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on 8 December 2023.
Iran
MENA
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Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi hospitalised in Iran

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 May, 2026
Over 43,000 people have been stripped of Kuwaiti citizenship since it began addressing alleged 'fraud' in its processes
Kuwait
MENA
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Kuwait deprives 1,266 including footballer, MP, of citizenship

The New Arab Staff
26 April, 2026
Books are exposed on shelves at the Ijtihed bookshop in the Algerian capital Algiers on February 16, 2015.
Algeria
MENA
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Algeria bookshop reopens after being shut by police over event

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 April, 2026
A view of the destruction after an Israeli airstrike that targeted six adjacent buildings just three minutes before the ceasefire took effect speaks in Tyre, Lebanon
Gaza War
MENA
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US and Israel driving 'predatory' world order, Amnesty warns

Agnese Boffano
21 April, 2026
Shawan Jabarin, Director of Al-Haq, addresses a rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice
France
MENA
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France U-turns on visa ban for Palestinian rights defender

The New Arab Staff
19 April, 2026
Shawan Jabarin, the director of Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq, gestures as he speaks at the organisation's offices, days after it was raided by Israeli forces, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 24, 2022
France
MENA
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France denies entry to Palestinian human rights defender

The New Arab Staff
17 April, 2026
Doha Film Festival 2025 - Day Five
Kuwait
MENA
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Kuwait detains journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin over social posts

The New Arab Staff
14 April, 2026
Swedish Iranians and exiled Iranians protest outside the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm, Sweden on June 16, 2024 during a demonstration organized by United Associations for a Free Iran (FFFI) against Sweden's release of life-sentenced Iranian Hamid Noury
Sweden
Economy
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Five minors tried in Sweden over Iran dissident murder plot

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
08 April, 2026
Israeli soldiers walk during a military operation in the town of Qalqiya, in the occupied West Bank on December 4, 2025
Israel
MENA
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Press group slams Israeli forces' 'violent assault' on CNN crew

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 March, 2026
Migrant worker activists demonstrated in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy office in Jakarta, protesting the execution of a beheading sentence against Muhammad Zaini Misrin Arsyad (53) who works in a Saudi country.
Saudi Arabia
MENA
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UN body finds Saudi executions on drug charges 'inexcusable'

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 March, 2026
Members of the Israeli security forces stand gard as buses transporting Palestinian prisoners leave the Kziot prison in the Negev desert on January 25, 2025
Palestinian detainees
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Jewish settlers gloat at shackled Palestinians in 'prison tour'

The New Arab Staff
25 February, 2026
Israel continues to carry out deadly assaults on Gaza on a daily basis
Gaza War
MENA
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Average of five people killed in Gaza every day since ceasefire

The New Arab Staff
22 February, 2026
Members of the Israeli security forces stand guard as buses transporting Palestinian prisoners leave the Kziot prison in the Negev desert on January 25, 2025
Palestinian prisoners
MENA
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Palestinian reporters face 'systematic abuse' in Israeli prisons

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 February, 2026
Iran execution [Getty]
Iran
MENA
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Iranian teen protester risks execution over policeman's killing: NGO

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 February, 2026
Jasim al-Shamsi
Syria
MENA
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Wife of Emirati dissident renews appeal over Syria disappearance

The New Arab Staff
09 February, 2026