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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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Iran – Threats against media workers and families show regime’s true face
Reporters Without Borders once again expresses its grave concern at the arbitrary arrests of journalists and netizens and the threats made against the families of foreigners and Iranians working for media organizations in Iran. In the past three years, the press freedom organization has recorded a dozen arrests and instances of threats against the families of journalists working for foreign-based organizations and international news agencies. In the past two months, several journalists (…)
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Syria – Syrian journalist killed in Aleppo, rebels blamed
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The pro-government TV station Al-Dounia has reported that the journalist Suhail Mahmoud Al-Ali died on 4 January from gunshot injuries received while covering fierce fighting in the city of Aleppo. The government media are blaming his death on opposition rebels, who they continue to describe as “terrorists.” Al-Ali’s death brings to 19 the number of journalists killed in connection with their work since the start of the Syrian uprising in March 2011. At least 45 (…)
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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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Syria – Two Turkish journalists and Syrian assistants kidnapped in northwestern Syria
Read in Turkish / Türkçe Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the fate of two Turkish journalists, Adem Özköse, a reporter for the magazine Gerçek Hayat and the daily Milat, and cameraman Hamit Coşkun, who went missing near the northwestern city of Idlib five days ago. According to the information obtained by Reporters Without Borders, the two journalists and the Syrians who were accompanying them were abducted by Shabiha militiamen in the pay of the Assad governmentat at a (…)
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Syria – Two Turkish journalists and Syrian assistants kidnapped in northwestern Syria
Read in Turkish / Türkçe Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the fate of two Turkish journalists, Adem Özköse, a reporter for the magazine Gerçek Hayat and the daily Milat, and cameraman Hamit Coşkun, who went missing near the northwestern city of Idlib five days ago. According to the information obtained by Reporters Without Borders, the two journalists and the Syrians who were accompanying them were abducted by Shabiha militiamen in the pay of the Assad governmentat at a (…)
