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Overview of media freedom violations of past few days

Published on 8 March 2011Read

Five women presenters resign from Al Jazeera

Published on 2 June 2010Read

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Robert Ménard and staff leave Doha Centre for Media Freedom

International press freedom campaigner Robert Ménard has resigned as director-general of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, which he had headed (...)

Published on 23 June 2009 Read

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Doha Centre journalist forbidden to leave Qatar

Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned about a hardening in the attitude of the Qatari authorities towards the Doha Centre for Media (...)

Published on 24 March 2009 Read

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Journalist sentenced to three years in prison in absentia

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-year jail sentence in absentia against journalist Amal Eisa, formerly of the Qatari daily (...)

Published on 23 June 2008 Read

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Reporters Without Borders condemns harassment of Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera

Reporters Without Borders has protested at persistent harassment of Arabic-language satellite TV al-Jazeera as the channel said on 26 January (...)

Published on 27 January 2005 Read

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Reporters Without Borders asks for pardon for a Jordanian journalist sentenced to death

Reporters Without Borders has asked the Qatari Emir Sheik Hamad Ben Khalifa al-Thani to pardon forthwith the journalist Firas Majali whose death (...)

Published on 24 February 2003 Read

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Journalist condemned to death for "spying"

Reporters Without Borders today denounced the Qatar supreme court for sentencing a Jordanian journalist, Firas Majali, to death on 22 October for (...)

Published on 24 October 2002 Read