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Egypt – Sinai-based freelancer to be tried before military court
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by the detention of Mohamed Sabry, a freelance journalist based in the eastern Sinai region, and calls for his immediate release. Arrested on 4 January, he is due to be court martialled in what is the latest of series of disturbing media freedom violations. Sabry’s wife said he was detained while filming in a military zone in Rafah for a report for Reuters about a decision by the armed forces to ban the purchase of land in the border (…)
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Egypt – Appeal court urged to overturn Coptic blogger’s conviction
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that the Coptic Christian blogger Albert Saber Ayyad was finally released on bail on 17 December and urges the judicial system to overturn his conviction on appeal. When a Cairo suburb court sentenced Ayyad to three years in prison on a charge of “denigrating religions” on 12 December, his lawyer, Ahmed Ezzat, a member of the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, immediately announced that he would appeal. After (…)
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Egypt – Anti-Islamic video banned in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The Saryarka regional court of Astana prohibited the US-produced anti-Islamic video “Innocence of Muslims” yesterday in Kazakhstan on the grounds that it was “extremist.” The ministry of transport and communication requested the ban on its importation and distribution via the Internet. Its dissemination has been prohibited since 1 October in Russia, where it is to be added to the list of “extremist” works as a result of a ruling by the Tverskoy regional court in Moscow, (…)
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Egypt – Journalist dies from head injury after six days in hospital
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the journalist Al-Hosseiny Abu Deif died yesterday in central Cairo’s El Qasr Al Aini Hospital of the serious head injury he received while covering clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo in the early hours of 6 December. Hospitalized in a critical condition after a rubber bullet was fired at his head at close range, Deif never recovered consciousness. The Egyptian media reported that journalists, politicians (…)
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Egypt – Journalists and bloggers among 12 people to appear before military courts
Reporters Without Borders objects to the decision to bring two journalists and two activist bloggers before military courts to face charges of harming the army’s image and seeking to overthrow the state. “The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has demonstrated once again its willingness to muzzle media workers, who are the repeated victims of military oppression,” the press freedom organization said. “This organization openly condemns the use of military courts to try journalists and (…)
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Egypt – Jailed blogger’s retrial adjourned again as military plays for time
Reporters Without Borders deplores the latest adjournment yesterday of jailed blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad’s retrial by court martial on a charge of insulting the armed forces in his blog. After Sanad’s original conviction was overturned on appeal, the retrial was initially scheduled to have begun on 13 October. “We condemn this persistence in persecuting Sanad and call for his immediate release,” Reporters Without Borders said. “This military court should dismiss the charges against him. The (…)
