Amina Sboui, a jailed Tunisian activist with the topless protest group Femen, went on trial Monday for contempt and defamation after charging that detainees were tortured in her prison.

The trial in a court in M'Saken, 150 kilometers (95 miles) south of Tunis, comes two months after Sboui was arrested and after four prison guards filed charges against her and another women, Rabiaa, detained in the same jail.

Tunisia's Tamarod movement, which has called for the dissolution of the National Constituent Assembly, is endangering the country's democratic process, Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh said on Monday.

"This copycat group which calls itself Tamarod is clear, and I think it represents a danger to the democratic process, an attempt to make it fail in Tunisia," Larayedh said in a radio interview.

Tunisia offered asylum to Islamist cleric Abu Qatada before his deportation from Britain to face terror charges in the kingdom, a Jordanian MP said on Monday.

Mohammad Hjuj told Agence France Presse he was among a group of MPs who met last Monday the Jordanian cleric in jail.

EU foreign ministers called Monday on Egypt's military to stand aside and allow a peaceful transition to civilian rule after ousting the elected government earlier this month.

Expressing "deep concern" over developments in Egypt, ministers said "the armed forces should not play a political role in a democracy."

Dutch authorities have arrested a 19-year-old woman suspected of recruiting jihadists to fight alongside radical Muslim rebels in Syria, a prosecution spokeswoman said on Monday.

"The woman was arrested and has been remanded for two weeks while an investigation is underway," Nicolette Stoel, spokeswoman for the Public Prosecutor's office in The Hague, told Agence France Presse.

A Norwegian woman sentenced to prison in Dubai after reporting she was raped was set free with a full pardon on Monday after her case sparked an outcry.

Marte Dalelv, 24, expressed relief at the end of a four-month ordeal which had seen her prosecuted and convicted for extramarital sex, perjury and consuming alcohol without a licence, after she lodged the complaint against her boss.

The family of ousted president Mohammed Morsi said Monday they plan to sue Egypt's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, for having "kidnapped" the elected Islamist head of state.

Hundreds of Morsi's supporters, meanwhile, marched to the public prosecutor's office and the defense ministry in Cairo, chanting anti-military slogans and carrying pictures of the toppled president.

Kuwait's appeals court on Monday overturned a three-year jail term on three former opposition MPs and acquitted them from the charge of insulting the emir, a rights activist said.

In February, a lower court handed the jail terms against Falah al-Sawwagh, Bader al-Dahum and Khaled al-Tahus for making remarks at a public rally in October 2012 that were deemed offensive to Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.

Syria's rebels on Monday seized the strategic town of Khan al-Assal, a regime bastion in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said.

They also took two villages located southeast of Aleppo, as they advanced towards cutting off the army's supply route to Syria's second city.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said any future peace deal with Israel will be put to a referendum, in remarks published Monday, four days after Washington announced the resumption of negotiations.

"Any agreement with the Israelis will be brought to a referendum," Abbas told Jordanian government-owned Al-Rai newspaper.