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Yemen

Draconian law

Open letter from Reporters Without Borders to the Yemeni president

Published on 22 May 2012Read

Iran

"We are worried"

Two Azerbaijani writers missing in Iran

Published on 22 May 2012Read

Israel

Israeli troops arrest head of Palestinian Prisoner Channel

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reports Without Borders strongly condemns the arrest by Israeli troops on 17 May in the West Bank of Baha Khairi Attalah (...)

Published on 21 May 2012 Read

Syria

Citizen journalist sentenced to death for Al-Jazeera interview

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn of the death sentence passed today on the citizen journalist Mohammed Abdelmawla (...)

Published on 18 May 2012 Read

Bahrain

Journalist arrested for comments during radio interviews

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns freelance journalist and blogger Ahmed Radhi’s arrest in a pre-dawn raid on his home (...)

Published on 18 May 2012 Read

Yemen

Journalists attacked, threatened, arrested and prosecuted

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Although President Ali Abdallah Saleh was forced to stand down last February, media freedom violations are continuing at an (...)

Published on 17 May 2012 Read

Iraq

Kurdish authorities arrest magazine editor to appease Islamists

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Hamin Ary, the editor of the Erbil-based Kurdish and Arabic (...)

Published on 16 May 2012 Read

Egypt

Cairo bureau of Iranian TV station Al-Alam closed by authorities

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the raid carried out by the Egyptian police two days ago on the Iranian Arabic-language (...)

Published on 15 May 2012 Read

Syria

Eight journalists and bloggers freed, 31 still held

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders welcomes the provisional release of eight journalists and bloggers who were arrested by intelligence (...)

Published on 14 May 2012 Read

Jordan

Journalist freed on bail after 21 days in custody, still faces prosecution

Reporters Without Borders is relieved at the release on bail yesterday of Jamal Al-Muhtaseb, who had been held in custody since 23 April charged (...)

Published on 14 May 2012 Read