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Police brutality

Two journalists assaulted as police violence becomes a habit

Published on 21 March 2012Read

Middle East/North Africa

"Go!"

Overview of media freedom violations of past few days

Published on 8 March 2011Read

Middle East/North Africa

Pro-democracy demonstrations lead to attacks on journalists, arrests

Reporters Without Borders is concerned to see that many journalists who are trying to cover the demonstrations taking place in Iraq, Algeria, (...)

Published on 18 February 2011 Read

Algeria

Does blocking of independent radio station’s website herald start of Internet censorship by Algeria?

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that access to the website of the independent news radio station, Radio Kalima-Algérie (...)

Published on 19 March 2010 Read

Algeria

Tébessa-based reporter gets six months in prison

Reporters Without Borders condemns the six-month jail sentence that a court in Tébessa (460 km east of Algiers) passed yesterday on Rabah (...)

Published on 17 July 2009 Read

Algeria

Two Moroccan journalistes prevented from covering presidential election

Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday’s arrest of two Moroccan journalists, Hicham El Madraoui and Mahfoud Aït Bensaleh, who had gone to (...)

Published on 10 April 2009 Read

Algeria

Three French publications banned on the eve of presidential election

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the Algerian government’s decision to ban distribution of the current issues of three French publications (...)

Published on 8 April 2009 Read

Algeria

Reporters Without Borders sent the following open letter today to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Dear Mr. President, As you will undoubtedly win a third term in the 9 April presidential elections, Reporters Without Borders, an organisation (...)

Published on 6 April 2009 Read

Algeria

Regional newspaper editor freed after a day and a half in prison

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Al-Waha editor Nedjar El-Hadj Daoud yesterday evening in the southern city of Ghardaïa, where he (...)

Published on 4 March 2009 Read