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Military court to try investigative reporter

Published on 5 February 2013Read

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Journalist tortured

Freed from detention but still facing charges

Published on 2 October 2012Read

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Lebanese TV cameraman shot dead on Syrian border

Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn that Ali Shaaban, a cameraman working for the Lebanese TV station Al-Jadeed, was killed (...)

Published on 11 April 2012 Read

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Black day for media in Lebanon

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns today’s targeted physical attacks on journalists in several Lebanese cities including Beirut, the (...)

Published on 25 January 2011 Read

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Al-Akhbar reporter held and interrogated illegally by defence ministry

The detention and interrogation of Hassan Allek, a reporter for the daily Al-Akhbar, by the defence ministry on 11 August were flagrant (...)

Published on 13 August 2010 Read

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Lebanese journalist killed when Israeli tank opens fire

Assaf Abu Rahal, a journalist working for the daily Al-Akhbar, was killed and Al-Manar TV reporter Ali Chouayb was wounded at around midday today (...)

Published on 3 August 2010 Read

Lebanon

French investigation at standstill four years after journalist Samir Kassir’s murder

On the fourth anniversary of Franco-Lebanese newspaper columnist Samir Kassir’s murder in Beirut, Reporters Without Borders today voiced its (...)

Published on 2 June 2009 Read

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Newspaper under pressure because of political tension and rivalry

Reporters Without Borders condemns the distribution ban which the Syrian authorities have imposed on the privately-owned Lebanese daily Al-Diyar (...)

Published on 24 April 2009 Read

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Tribute to press freedom martyr on third anniversary of murder

Reporters Without Borders appeals to the United Nations to help bring Gebran Tueni’s murderers to justice. A parliamentarian and publisher of one (...)

Published on 12 December 2008 Read