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Yemen – Crackdowns on pro-democracy protests continue to affect journalists, Morocco and Tunisia still try to gag information
SYRIA Ahmed Bilal, a producer with Falesteen TV who is known to be a supporter of democratic change, was arrested yesterday in the Damascus suburb of Mo’adamieh. Reporters Without Borders fears that he could suffer the same fate as Ghiyath Matar, a pacifist who was arrested in a Damascus suburb on 6 September because of his role within the Darayya coordination committee. He died on 12 September as a result of being tortured while in detention. Reporters Without Borders is also concerned (…)
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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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Yemen – Violence, blocked websites and prosecutions – anti-media offensive continues
Yemen Reporters Without Borders condemns the attempted assassination of deputy information minister Abdu Al-Ganadi. A bomb exploded outside his home on the morning of 18 August without causing any casualties. An investigation is under way to identify those responsible and their motives. Suhail TV cameraman Ahmad Firas was arrested by soldiers from Daylami airbase on the afternoon of 12 August as he was driving towards Sanaa with his wife and children, who were released a few hours later. (…)
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Yemen – Arab Spring and repression continue from Rabat to Manama
While Bahrain and Saudi Arabia use mainly technical means (including satellite jamming and website blocking) to obstruct media freedom, Yemen and Syria continue to resort to violence. Blogger and reporters covering pro-democracy demonstrations have also been roughed up in Morocco. BAHRAIN Lualua TV, a satellite TV station launched by 15 members of the Bahraini opposition on 17 July in London, has been jammed since the first day despite changing frequency regularly. According to Eutelsat, (…)
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Yemen – Ali Al-Abdallah freed
Reporters Without Borders notes that the writer and journalist Ali Al-Abdallah was freed yesterday (20 July). 18.07.2011 Opposition journalist Ali Al-Abdallah arrested again SYRIA Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns opposition writer and journalist Ali Al-Abdallah’s arrest just seven weeks after his release under a general amnesty on 30 May. He was detained when security forces raided his home in Qatana, 25 km south of the capital, at around 9 a.m. yesterday. A signatory of (…)
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Yemen – Journalist deported, others tried in Bahrain, reporter kidnapped, others hounded in Yemen
BAHRAIN Finian Cunningham, an Irish journalist and writer who has been living in Bahrain for years, was “invited to leave” by the Bahraini authorities, Reporters Without Borders has learned. He returned to Ireland on 19 June. Ever since the start of the pro-democracy movement in mid-February, he had been actively commenting on developments, especially the government-orchestrated crackdown, and had been giving many interviews. Cunningham told Reporters Without Borders he had a tourist visa (…)
