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When The Haboob Sings
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When the Haboob Sings: A novel about censorship and freedom

Book Club: Nejoud Al-Yagout's 'When the Haboob Sings' explores censorship, apostasy and freedom through a writer imprisoned for speaking her truth

Joyce Bou Charaa
19 August, 2026
A picture taken on September 2, 2014 in the Iranian capital Tehran shows the doors of cells in a corridor of the "Qasr prison", a former prison hosting political prisoners that was turned into a museum in 2012.
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Iran prisoners stage protest, hunger strike against executions

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15 October, 2025
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Iran hands two French nationals prison sentences for spying

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 October, 2025
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Protests force prison transfer of UK woman held in Iran

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 October, 2025
A vehicle destroyed in Israeli strikes is pictured at Evin prison in northern Tehran, Iran, on July 1, 2025
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British couple held in Iran to get verdict within days

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 October, 2025
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Iran court confirms Frenchman's 8-year sentence: lawyer

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 June, 2022
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Egypt imprisons dozens in 2014 Rabaa sit-in case

The New Arab Staff
08 June, 2022
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Egypt's Sisi pardons journalist, more than 3,000 convicts

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 April, 2022
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Israel pressured to end case against Palestinian aid-worker

The New Arab Staff
01 March, 2022
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World Uyghur Congress founder's brother handed life in China

The New Arab Staff
01 June, 2021
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Saudi women's rights activist sentenced to five years imprisonment

The New Arab Staff
28 December, 2020
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Iran postpones new trial of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: husband

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 September, 2020
Akbar Tabari
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Iran ex-judiciary official gets 31 years for graft

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 September, 2020
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Algerian journalist who covered protests sentenced to three years

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 August, 2020
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UAE sentences disabled Omani man to life imprisonment

The New Arab
08 May, 2020
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Riyadh using counter-terrorism laws to silence activists: UN experts

The New Arab
05 March, 2019
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Iran jails three human rights lawyers

The New Arab & agencies
11 December, 2018
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Iran sentences former vice president to 63 years imprisonment

The New Arab & agencies
20 December, 2017
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UAE
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Behind the glossy veneer: Human rights abuses in UAE

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Joe Odell

18 August, 2017
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US
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Outrage over Canada compensating former Guantanamo detainee is misguided

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Usaid Siddiqui

20 July, 2017
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Detained Yemeni journalists go on hunger strike

The New Arab
13 May, 2016