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Spate of attacks

Journalists attacked while covering clashes between rival demonstrators

Published on 22 April 2013Read

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Spy mania

Dutch reporter arrested on suspicion of spying, held for 24 hours

Published on 10 April 2013Read

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TV satirist’s arrest, increase in attacks on journalists

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns last weekend’s interrogation of Bassem Youssef, a popular presenter and satirist on (...)

Published on 2 April 2013 Read

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TV host accused of “promoting terrorism”

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about a judicial investigation into TV journalist Dina Abdel Fattah that is (...)

Published on 14 March 2013 Read

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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 (...)

Published on 9 January 2013 Read

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Appeal court urged to overturn Coptic blogger’s conviction

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that the Coptic Christian blogger Albert Saber Ayyad was finally released on (...)

Published on 21 December 2012 Read

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Anti-Islamic video banned in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The Saryarka regional court of Astana prohibited the US-produced anti-Islamic video "Innocence of Muslims" yesterday in (...)

Published on 21 December 2012 Read

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Journalist dies from head injury after six days in hospital

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the journalist Al-Hosseiny Abu Deif died yesterday in central Cairo’s El (...)

Published on 13 December 2012 Read

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Jail sentence for defamation is bad sign for freedom of information

In Arabic (بالعربية) A court in Luxor yesterday convicted Tawfiq Okacha, the owner of the TV station El-Faraeen (The Pharaons) and a program presenter (...)

Published on 23 October 2012 Read

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President orders editor’s release but concerns remain

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders hails yesterday’s decision by President Mohamed Morsi to request Al-Dostour editor Islam Afifi’s (...)

Published on 24 August 2012 Read