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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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Tanzania – Community radio reporter found dead in northwest
Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that community radio journalist Issa Ngumba was found dead in a forest in Kakonko, in the northwestern region of Kigoma, on 8 January, three days after he went missing. It was clear from the injuries on his body that he was murdered. “The death of a second journalist in four months in what was one of Africa’s safest countries for the media is setting the alarm bells ringing,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We are nonetheless pleased that the (…)
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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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France – Pierre Veilletet, former chairman of Reporters Without Borders France, dies aged 69
It is with great sadness that Reporters Without Borders learned of the death yesterday of the former president of its French section, Pierre Veilletet, at the age of 69. For many years Pierre was engaged in the press freedom organization’s battles. He had been a member of its board since it was founded and chaired the French section from 2003 to 2009. Born on 2 October 1943 in Momuy in the Landes department of south-west France, he began his career with the daily Sud-Ouest in 1968 and (…)
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Palestine – Hamas bans Palestinian journalists from cooperating with Israeli media
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the Gaza Strip’s Hamas-led government has banned Palestinian media and journalists from cooperating with the Israeli media because of the latter’s “hostility.” “Offenders will be prosecuted,” the Hamas government said in a 25 December press release announcing the prohibition. “This is the first time the Palestinian authorities have issued such a ban, which poses a serious threat to freedom of information,” Reporters Without (…)
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Turkey – Turkey – world’s biggest prison for journalists
Read in Turkish / Türkçe Coinciding with the publication of its annual roundup, Reporters Without Borders is releasing the findings of the investigation it has conducted in recent months into journalists imprisoned in Turkey. “With a total of 72 media personnel currently detained, of whom at least 42 journalists and four media assistants are being held in connection with their media work, Turkey is now the world’s biggest prison for journalists – a sad paradox for a country that portrays (…)
