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Palestinian Territories - Latest on media exclusion from Gaza Strip - 6.01.2009

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 07-Jan-2009 01:08

United Arab Emirates - Letter to government voicing concern about proposed press law reform - 5.01.2009

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Jan-2009 07:22

Iran - Judicial authorities urged to clarify reasons for leading blogger's detention - 31.12.2008
Reporters Without Borders calls on the judicial authorities to clarify why Hossein Derakhshan, a leading blogger with Iranian and Canadian dual nationality, has been detained since 1 November. The judiciary's spokesman yesterday reportedly said he was being held in connection with comments he posted online about key figures of the Shiite faith.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Jan-2009 07:22

Iraq - US military urged to discipline soldiers who shot woman journalist in Baghdad - 3.01.2009

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Jan-2009 07:07

Iran - Against Gaza backdrop, government closes newspaper and sends supporters to intimidate Nobel peace laureate - 2.01.2009

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Jan-2009 06:52

Algeria - Judicial authorities unearth more libel cases against national daily - 30.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Jan-2009 06:37

Palestinian territories - Media involved in several incidents since start of Israeli offensive against Gaza Strip - 30.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 06-Jan-2009 06:22

Algeria - Three-month jail terms for newspaper editor and reporter - 23.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 24-Dec-2008 01:23

Iran - Closure of Nobel laureate's human rights organisation condemned - 22.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Dec-2008 19:21

Iran - Imprisoned journalist denied hospital treatment suffers second heart attack - 18.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Dec-2008 19:06

Iran - Authorities urged to quash 30-month prison sentence imposed on blogger - 19.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 20-Dec-2008 01:11

Egypt - Two bloggers jailed, a third held incommunicado - 19.12.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of three bloggers - Reda Abderrahman Ali (http://www.elaphblog.com/page.aspx?U=459&page=2), Mohammed Adel (http://43arb.info/meit) and Abdelaziz Mogahed (http://elmogahed02.blogspot.com) - in the past seven weeks because of what they posted online.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 19-Dec-2008 13:05

Iraq - Call for leniency for Muntadar al-Zaidi after shoe throwing protest - 16.12.2008
?We obviously regret that the journalist used this method of protest against the politics of the American president?, the worldwide press freedom organisation said. ?But for humanitarian reasons and to ease tension, we call for the release of Muntadar al-Zaidi who has been held by the Iraqi authorities for two days.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 16-Dec-2008 19:24

Syria - Appeal court quashes early release for Michel Kilo - 15.12.2008
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns today's refusal by a plenary session of the Damascus appeal court to grant journalist and human rights activist Michel Kilo early release. The judges overturned an earlier ruling by the court in favour of Kilo's release from Adra prison, in a Damascus suburb.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 15-Dec-2008 19:04

Lebanon - Tribute to press freedom martyr on third anniversary of murder - 12.12.2008
Reporters Without Borders appeals to the United Nations to help bring Gebran Tueni's murderers to justice. A parliamentarian and publisher of one of the Middle-East's leading Arabic-language dailies, Tueni was killed in a targeted car-bombing in the Beirut suburb of Mkalles three years ago today.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Dec-2008 01:02

Tunisia - Journalist and human rights lawyer prevented from attending Arab media forum in Beirut - 12.12.2008
Journalist Lotfi Hidouri was arrested at Tunis' Carthage airport on 10 December as he was about to take a flight with other Tunisian journalists to attend the third Independent Arab Press Forum in Beirut. Human rights lawyer Mohammed Abbou was also prevented from taking the same flight to attend the forum.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 12-Dec-2008 13:16

Iran - Authorities step up Internet surveillance, cyber-dissident sentenced to five years in prison - 11.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 11-Dec-2008 19:10

Syria - Authorities continue judicial persecution of jailed cyber-dissident - 9.12.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the way the authorities are conducting the trial of cyber-dissident Habib Saleh and reiterates its call for his release. The first supposedly public hearing in his trial took place before a Damascus court of assizes on 1 December but his daughter was the only member of the public allowed to attend and the hearing began without his lawyers being present.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 09-Dec-2008 13:14

Morocco - Another large fine imposed on embattled Arabic-language daily - 3.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 03-Dec-2008 19:06

Iraq - Doctor jailed in Kurdistan for writing about homosexuality - 2.12.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Dec-2008 19:04

Syria - Letter to President Assad about record number of detained journalists and cyber-dissidents - 2.12.2008
Reporters Without Borders wrote to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad today condemning his silence and inaction in the face of an increase in arrests and convictions of journalists and cyber-dissidents. A total of nine are currently held - the highest number at any one time since he became president in July 2000.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Dec-2008 18:49

Iran - Four-year sentence for online journalist who posted dissident ayatollah's sermon - 1.12.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns the four-year prison sentence which a special court for the clergy in the religious city of Qom imposed on online journalist and cleric Mojtaba Lotfi on 29 November for disseminating the views of Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri and for ?publicity against the government.?
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 02-Dec-2008 01:08

Lebanon - Journalist seriously injured during a pro-Syrian rally - 27.11.2008
Reporters Without Borders said it was sickened by an attack today on television journalist, Omar Harqous, of the channel Future News. ?Press freedom in Lebanon is threatened by these increasingly frequent attacks against journalists. It is vital that the authorities quickly open an investigation to identify and try Omar Harqous's assailants?, the organisation said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 28-Nov-2008 01:16

Iran - One journalist held incommunicado, a second stabbed - 27.11.2008
"We call for Totonchi's release especially as, more than a week after his arrest, no charges have been brought against him.Meanwhile, the physical attack on a journalist who was covering sensitive social issues serves as a danger alert to the entire media."Reporters Without Borders said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 27-Nov-2008 19:26

Egypt - Two bloggers being detained at secret locations - 26.11.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 26-Nov-2008 19:03

Tunisia - Young woman journalist arrested and manhandled while covering student demo - 25.11.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 25-Nov-2008 19:11

Iran - Two cyber-dissidents jailed, 5 million websites censored - 20.11.2008
Reporters Without Borders condemns online journalist Shahnaz Gholami's arrest at her Tehran home on 9 November without any official reason being given. Her arrest came just a few days before a publication that supports the president called the Internet a ?tool of subversion.?
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 20-Nov-2008 19:17

Iraq - New call for release of photographer held by US army - 20.11.2008
Reporters Without Borders and its Iraqi partner organisation the Journalistic Freedom Observatory today renewed their call for the release of photographer Ibrahim Jassam of Reuters news agency, who has been detained by the US Army since 1st September 2008. ?After 31 December 2008, Jassam can no longer be held in custody without being brought before a judge", the two organisations said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 20-Nov-2008 19:02

Israel/Gaza Strip - Foreign reporters prevented from entering Gaza Strip for past two weeks - 20.11.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 20-Nov-2008 18:47

Algeria - Provincial reporter still being harassed two years after leaving newspaper - 17.11.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 17-Nov-2008 19:14

Tunisia - Independent TV reporter wanted by police for coverage of unrest in mining region - 13.11.2008
Reporters Without Borders calls for the withdrawal of the charges brought against TV reporter Fahem Boukadous because of his coverage of this year's protests in the Gafsa mining region. ?The Tunisian authorities cannot keep reiterating their commitment to press freedom at every major national event if a journalist is forced to go into hiding", said the organisation.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 13-Nov-2008 19:07

Iraq / Kurdistan - Kurdish newspaper editor gets a month in prison for ?defaming? legal system - 10.11.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 11-Nov-2008 01:05

Iran - Moderate weekly suspended a day after Ayatollah Khamenei threatens media - 7.11.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 07-Nov-2008 19:04

Tunisia - Repression continues as Ben Ali marks 21st anniversary as president - 7.11.2008
As it celebrates the 21st anniversary today of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's takeover as president, the Tunisian government is above all stressing his economic, social and security successes. Tunisia nonetheless continues to be one of the region's most authoritarian countries as regards civil liberties.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 07-Nov-2008 13:17

Egypt - Two years for a blog : that's enough ! - 5.11.2008
Reporters Without Borders today renewed its call for the release of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer, aged 24, sentenced in 2006 to three years in prison for ?insulting Islam? and one year for ?insulting the president?, who will have served half his sentence on 6 November 2008.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 05-Nov-2008 13:07

Syria - Will Michel Kilo be allowed out of Adra prison? - 4.11.2008
?Despite the appeal court's approval of Kilo's early release, the appeal filed by attorney-general reduces his chances of being freed soon,? Reporters Without Borders said. ?If the authorities really were seriously concerned about the ‘interests of the law,' Kilo would not be rotting in prison".
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 04-Nov-2008 19:06

Morocco - French weekly censored in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria for ?attack on Islam? - 3.11.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 03-Nov-2008 19:06

Jordan - Newspaper editor's prosecution by military court sets disturbing precedent - 31.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 31-Oct-2008 13:25

Morocco - Astronomic damages award against leading Arabic-language daily upheld on appeal - 30.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 30-Oct-2008 19:11

Iran - Appeal court upholds 11-year jail term for Kurdish journalist - 30.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 30-Oct-2008 18:56

Iran - Government continues to harass cyber-feminists in attempt to silence them - 29.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 29-Oct-2008 19:16

Syria - Outrage over exemplary 36-month prison sentences passed on three journalists - 29.10.2008
Reporters Without Borders is deeply outraged by the sentences of two and a half years in prison which a Damascus court passed today on three Syrian journalists and nine other pro-democracy activists - all members of the Damascus Declaration National Council. ?These dissidents, who have been gagged by a subservient judicial system, need the support of all those who are committed to freedom of opinion and expression,? the organisation said.
Source : Reporters Without Borders | 29-Oct-2008 13:24

Tunisia - Court proceedings initiated against editor of independent online magazine - 28.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 28-Oct-2008 19:08

Egypt - TV news agency threatened with closure after arbitrary fine and equipment seizure - 27.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 27-Oct-2008 19:23

Tunisia - Human rights lawyer prevented from going to France to take part in Al-Jazeera programme - 22.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Oct-2008 19:25

Algeria - Reporters without borders urges dismissal of case after ministry seeks one year jail sentence against journalist - 22.10.2008

Source : Reporters Without Borders | 22-Oct-2008 19:10