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United Arab Emirates – News blackout imposed on trial of 94 activists on national security charges
Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns the news blackout that the UAE’s authorities have imposed on the trial of 94 political activists and human rights defenders before the supreme court in Abu Dhabi on charges of endangering the country’s security. The authorities have allowed the UAE media to attend the four hearings so far held but [...]
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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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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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Syria – State TV cameraman gunned down in Damascus
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Syrian state TV reported on 22 December that one of its cameramen, Haydar Al-Soumoudi, was gunned down by “rebels” outside his home in the west Damascus suburb of Kafar Souseh the previous evening. “Violence against news providers is becoming more and more widespread and is targeting both pro-government and pro-opposition journalists and citizen-journalists,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We firmly condemn this latest murder and the increasingly heavy toll that coverage (…)
