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United Arab Emirates

Growing concerns

Prison sentence for netizen

Published on 22 May 2013Read

Iran

OPEN LETTER

Open letter to the eight candidates in the Islamic Republic’s 11th presidential election

Published on 22 May 2013Read

Syria

Syria using 34 Blue Coat servers to spy on Internet users

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Syria’s Internet network has long been kept under close surveillance. Now it turns out that the surveillance has been stepped (...)

Published on 23 May 2013 Read

Israel

Unsupported accusations against French TV correspondent over coverage of Palestinian teenager’s shooting

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The Israeli government has just published a report of its investigation into French TV station France 2’s controversial (...)

Published on 22 May 2013 Read

Iran

Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2013)

22.05.2013-IRAN - Crackdown on news Websites blocked, journalists and netizens under pressure Reporters Without Borders condemns a week-old (...)

Published on 22 May 2013 Read

Syria

Rights activists face terrorism charges - Free Award-Winning Journalist, Colleagues

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Read in Russian / Читать по-русски Read in Chinese / 看中文 (Amsterdam, Beirut, Cairo, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dublin, Geneva, London, (...)

Published on 17 May 2013 Read

Syria

German freelancer held by Assad regime

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns German freelance journalist Armin Wertz’s detention by the Syrian authorities since 5 May. (...)

Published on 14 May 2013 Read

Iran

Regime wants to isolate Iran, hold elections behind closed doors

Reporters Without Borders condemns the reinforcement of Iran’s system of Internet filtering and blocking. Use of the leading VPN censorship (...)

Published on 7 May 2013 Read

Tunisia

Government finally appoints Independent Broadcasting Authority

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders hails President Moncef Marzouki’s long-overdue announcement on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, of the (...)

Published on 7 May 2013 Read

Libya

World Press Freedom Day

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders would like to reiterate its support for the new Libyan state, its entire (...)

Published on 3 May 2013 Read