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Bahreïn: Une polémique divise les radicaux et les libéraux autour d’une loi limitant l’âge minimum du mariage

Les islamistes accusent le gouvernement de porter atteinte à l’islam et au Prophète.

Pakistan: American peace activists deported from Pakistan

Two American peace activists, who had been detained by police on the night of Tuesday Dec 4., were deported to Washington on Wednesday evening.

Grande-Bretagne: Des lits tournés vers La Mecque pour les patients musulmans d’un hôpital

Un hôpital du nord de l’Angleterre a accepté de tourner vers La Mecque les lits de ses patients musulmans les plus gravement malades qui en font la demande, a annoncé mardi un porte-parole.

Iran: More women's human rights defenders arrested

The latest in a string of arrests, One Million Signatures campaign member Jelveh Javaheri was imprisoned on Saturday, December 1 after undergoing interrogation at the security branch of the Revolutionary Courts.

Bahrain: A call to stop the clamp down on media in Bahrain

The World Association of Newspapers has joined an international appeal, calling for freedom of expression in Bahrain. The initiative was launched by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.

Iran: Female Doctor's Prison Death Causes Public Outcry

Zahra Bani Yaghoub was a 27-year-old medical university graduate from Tehran who some two years ago volunteered to work in the western city of Hamadan.

Iran: Les dissensions entre les mollahs sortent à la surface

Le dernier épisode de cette confrontation fut hier « l’acquittement de Hossein Moussavian, porte-parole de l’ancienne équipe des négociateurs du nucléaire et proche des modérés du régime, prenant le contre-pied du gouvernement du président Ahmadinedjad »

Pakistan: Woman's account of lawyer husband's arrest

Ghazala Minallah's account of the arrest of her husband, a lawyer in Pakistan. Her account suggests perhaps 6000 prisoners in a jail designed to hold 2000 people.

Algérie: le Ministère de l’intérieur interdit le port du nikab lors des élections locales

"Cette décision vient après les plaintes reçues par le Ministère, lors des législatives de mai dernier, concernant l’existence de plusieurs cas de fraude..."

Iran: Police in Iran release list of 'vices'

"'Wearing Western-style clothes and insignias of deviant groups' (usually a reference to referring to Satanists or rappers), was on the list alongside 'production and distribution of decadent movies as well as private home-made videos'."