(This article reposted from Al Jazeera) For days, the rain had battered the sides of the prison, pattering incessantly on its sheet metal walls. A hurricane was on its way that much Mourad Benchellali had gathered. But no one had come to get him, and from what he could tell, it seemed unlikely that…
When asked if she would vote for the centrist Emmanuel Macron over the far-right Marine Le Pen in a possible runoff for the French presidency, Nadia Henni-Moulai could only muster an unenthusiastic “I’ll see”. “Macron might convince me by then … but I won’t vote for him by default,” she said before vexing at the…
Three soldiers guarding a Jewish community center in Nice were attacked by a man armed with a knife. Two were injured. Sharon Baron, a police official in Nice, said that the attack had been apprehended near the Galeries Lafayette. The assailant had carried an identification card with his name, Moussa Coulibaly. He has the same…
French comedian Dieudonné Mbala has been charged with condoning terrorism following a Facebook comment in which he expressed support for Ahmedy Coulibaly, the gunman who took hostages at a kosher supermarket and killed five people. While in court Dieudonné stated: “of course I condemn the attacks without any restrain and without any ambiguity.” He angered…
June 23, 2014 An Egyptian court has found a Dutch journalist guilty of assisting the banned Muslim Brotherhood, and sentenced her to 10 years in jail, in absentia. The journalist left Cairo in February following the intervention of the Dutch Embassy. The Netherlands does not have an extradition treaty with Egypt. Rena Netjes is one…
