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Libya – Militia holding two British journalists urged to surrender them to competent authorities
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the continuing detention of two British TV journalists, reporter Nicholas Davies-Jones and cameraman Gareth Montgomery-Johnson, who were arrested in Tripoli on 21 February by a Misrata-based militia and are still being held by the same militia. According to Human Rights Watch, three Libyans who were accompanying the journalists were also arrested. The journalists, freelancers who mainly work for Iran’s state-owned English-language TV news station (…)
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Libya – Another predator falls
Reporters Without Borders notes Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s death today, two months after his 42 years of dictatorial rule were brought to an end when Tripoli was taken on 23 August. Col. Gaddafi was one of the leading holders of the “Predator of Press Freedom” title that Reporters Without Borders began bestowing after its creation in 1985. We pay tribute to the victims of his oppressive regime, to the journalists he imprisoned and to the five journalists killed in Libya since March 2011. The (…)
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Yemen – Convictions in Muscat, cameraman on life support in Sanaa, journalists injured in Libya and arbitrary arrests in Syria
OMAN Reporters Without Borders condemns the five-month jail sentences that a Muscat court passed today on Yousef Al-Haj, a journalist with the Muscat-based daily Al-Zaman, and Ibrahim Al-Mo’amari, his editor, for allegedly defaming justice minister Mohamed Al-Hanai in an article published on 14 May. The judge also ordered the newspaper closed for a month. Reporters Without Borders expressed its concern about the trial in a letter to Sultan Qaboos, Oman’s head of state, on 11 August, (…)
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Yemen – Despotic regimes continue to obstruct coverage of revolutions
SYRIA Reporters Without Borders condemns the beating that Samer Al-Shami, a photographer for the SANA agency, received on 30 August and the previous day’s arrest of Amer Abd Al-Salam, a journalist specialized in business reporting. Shami was abducted from his home in the western province of Homs at 5:30 a.m. by five gunmen who beat him with rifle butts, took him away in their car and interrogated him about his work and the supposed links of some of his relatives with the Moslem (…)
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Libya – Four Italian journalists released after being held for 24 hours
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of four Italian journalists who were kidnapped by Gaddafi loyalists about 40 km west of Tripoli yesterday. They were freed in the capital at noon today. Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about four Italian journalists who were kidnapped by Gaddafi loyalists on the road to Zawiya, about 40 km west of Tripoli, at around 1 p.m. yesterday and were taken to the capital. The press freedom organization calls for their immediate release (…)
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Libya – Foreign journalists able to leave Rixos Hotel
Reporters Without Borders is pleased that the foreign journalists being held in the Rixos Hotel were finally allowed to leave at around 5 p.m. today. They departed in vehicles provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Interview of the BBC journalist: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14654958 24.08.2011 – 11am – Foreign journalists held hostage in Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel Thirty-five foreign journalists have been unable to leave Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel since the evening of (…)
