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Prison sentence quashed but journalist’s libel conviction stands

Published on 9 July 2012Read

Algeria

Freedom of information still a concern after 50 years of independence

Published on 4 July 2012Read

Algeria

Journalist given two-month sentence for defamation in Algeria

Read in arabic / بالعربية Reporters Without Borders is dismayed at the verdict of a court in the western Algerian city of Mascara on 20 May sentencing (...)

Published on 20 June 2012 Read

Algeria

Two journalists assaulted as police violence becomes a habit

Reporters Without Borders strongly deplores assaults within days of each other on the photographer Mohamed Kadri and the journalist Hanane Driss. (...)

Published on 21 March 2012 Read

Middle East/North Africa

Overview of media freedom violations of past few days

Reporters Without Borders presents an overview of the acts of violence against journalists and other media freedom violations that have taken (...)

Published on 8 March 2011 Read

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