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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

Middle East/North Africa

Parliament gives green light for TV station critical of Syria to reopen

Reporters Without Borders today hailed the Lebanese parliament’s approval yesterday of a legislative amendment permitting the reopening of MTV, a (...)

Published on 17 August 2005 Read

Lebanon

Slain journalist’s wife says investigation needs full backing from both Paris and Beirut

Everyone must pull their weight, both in Paris and Lebanon, if there is to be any chance of establishing who murdered journalist Samir Kassir in (...)

Published on 21 July 2005 Read

Lebanon

Shock at murder of leading newspaper columnist Samir Kassir in car-bombing

Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Robert Ménard, who was in Beirut on 2 June, voiced dismay at the murder of columnist Samir Kassir of (...)

Published on 3 June 2005 Read

Lebanon

Reporters Without Borders condemns attempt to intimidate journalist Ali Hashisho

Reporters Without Borders has condemned an attempt to intimidate Lebanese journalist Ali Hashisho who found grenades left on the windscreen of (...)

Published on 29 July 2004 Read

Middle East/North Africa

Reporters Without Borders brands as harassment a 48-hour ban on NTV television

Reporters Without Borders has branded as harassment a 48-hour ban on news and political broadcasts on the independent New Television (NTV), in a (...)

Published on 17 December 2003 Read

Middle East/North Africa

Fear of threat to broadcast media after TV channel owner’s arrest

Reporters Without Borders today warned the Lebanese authorities against obstructing press freedom following the arrest of commercial TV channel (...)

Published on 9 December 2003 Read

Lebanon

Prosecutor launches investigation into daily An-Nahar

Reporters Without Borders wrote today to public prosecutor Adnan Addoum urging him to drop the judicial investigation launched yesterday against (...)

Published on 14 March 2003 Read

Middle East/North Africa

New head of French-speaking countries union urged to defend press freedom

Reporters Without Borders today urged the new secretary-general of the International Organisation of French-Speaking Countries, former Senegalese (...)

Published on 7 January 2003 Read