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Harsh verdict

Authorities take aim at Scope TV

Published on 4 May 2012Read

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Persecution

Six-month prison sentence for newspaper editor

Published on 14 March 2012Read

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Crackdown continues in Bahrain, bloggers go on trial in Emirates

BAHRAIN Regime officials have reportedly taken over the Facebook and Twitter pages of Rasad News, a major source of news about human rights (...)

Published on 16 June 2011 Read

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Journalists targeted by governments desperate to control news

LIBYA Reporters Without Borders has learned that Fatma Ben Dhaou, a Tunisian journalist who had gone to Libya for the newspaper Le Quotidien, (...)

Published on 23 March 2011 Read

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Blogger freed after supreme court overturns conviction

Reporters Without Borders hails today’s decision by Kuwait’s supreme court to overturn lawyer and netizen Mohamed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem’s (...)

Published on 24 January 2011 Read

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Government closes Al Jazeera’s Kuwait City bureau

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the government’s closure of the Kuwait City bureau of the Doha-based satellite TV station Al Jazeera (...)

Published on 14 December 2010 Read

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TV station owner facing possible life sentence or death penalty also exposed to mob violence

Reporters Without Borders condemns an armed attack on Kuwait City-based Scope TV, which was overrun by about 150 people brandishing knives and (...)

Published on 19 October 2010 Read

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Trial of Mohamed al-Jassem adjourned

Kuwait City’s criminal court decided on 20 September to adjourn until 18 October the trial of journalist and writer Mohamed Abdel Qader al-Jassem (...)

Published on 22 September 2010 Read

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Court clears writer and journalist Al-Jassem

A Kuwait City court has acquitted writer and journalist Mohamed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem on charges of defamation, inciting the government’s (...)

Published on 20 July 2010 Read

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Journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem’s trial postponed again

Detained journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem’s trial was adjourned again today, this time until 28 June. The judge granted the adjournment (...)

Published on 21 June 2010 Read