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Palestine – Journalist pardoned, but jail term highlights need for legislative reform
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is relieved that President Mahmoud Abbas pardoned the journalist Mamdouh Hamamreh shortly after an appeal court in the West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday sentenced him to a year in prison on a charge of insulting Abbas and publishing “hate-filled” content online. The Bethlehem correspondent of the pro-Hamas Palestinian satellite TV station Al-Quds, Hamamreh was arrested after yesterday’s ruling and is still being held in a Bethlehem police (…)
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Vietnam – Response to Vietnamese newspaper’s criticism of 2013 Netizen Prize
In an article published online on 14 March, the Vietnamese daily Nhan Dan criticized the fact that the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Netizen Prize was awarded to the Vietnamese citizen-journalist and blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh. Like his compatriots Ta Phong Tan and Nguyen Hoang Vi, Chenh was singled out for his defence of freedom of the media and information in Vietnam and for the courage he showed in using his website for the free and constructive expression of diverse opinions about (…)
Federal court rules “national security letters” unconstitutional
Reporters Without Borders hails a March 14 ruling by a federal district court judge in San Francisco that it is unconstitutional for the FBI to use national security grounds to request information about subscribers from phone companies and Internet Service Providers in a completely secret manner and without a court warrant. Sent in the form of so-called “national security letters” under the Patriot Act, these requests have prohibited the companies that receive them from revealing their (…)
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Bahrain – Authorities use arrests, expulsion to prevent information circulating
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the Manama prosecutor-general’s 25 December decision to hold human rights defender Sayed Yousef Al-Muhafda for another two weeks on a charge of posting false information on Twitter. Arrested on 17 December, Muhafda is currently being held in an isolation cell in a police station in the northeastern suburb of Hoora. One of the accusations against him is waiting until 17 December to post a photo taken on 15 December of an injured young (…)
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New treaty signed but not by all
The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) ended in disarray on 14 December after two weeks of often chaotic negotiations. On 13 December, less than half of the members of the International Telecommunication Union – the UN agency that organized the conference – (89 of 193) signed a new treaty revising the ITU’s International Telecommunications Regulations. But a coalition of 55 member states including the United States and France refused to sign on the grounds that one (…)
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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, (…)
