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Trapped

Syrian journalist killed in Aleppo, rebels blamed

Published on 7 January 2013Read

Oman

Judicial carnage

Appeal court upholds jail terms for 28 netizens

Published on 18 December 2012Read

Syria

Threat of imminent execution of kidnapped Ukrainian journalist

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) ARTICLE 19, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Press Institute and Reporters Without Borders are deeply (...)

Published on 12 December 2012 Read

Syria

Free Syrian Army faction releases kidnapped Lebanese journalist

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that the Lebanese journalist Fidaa Itani was released on the night of 31 (...)

Published on 14 November 2012 Read

Syria

Media workers under constant threat of arrest, torture, death

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders has learned from reliable sources that Bashar Fahmi Al-Kadumi, a Jordanian journalist of the (...)

Published on 6 November 2012 Read

Syria

Al-Ikhbariya cameraman killed after Black September for citizen journalists

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) News providers of all kinds – both pro-government and pro-opposition, and both professional and citizen journalists – continue (...)

Published on 10 October 2012 Read

Yemen

Serial attacks on media workers in Sanaa

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the deterioration in press freedom in Yemen. Cases of violence against (...)

Published on 19 September 2012 Read

Oman

More jail sentences on cyber-crime charges

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that a Muscat court sentenced Mukhtar Al-Hinai, a journalist with the daily (...)

Published on 18 September 2012 Read

Bahrain

Journalist Ahmed Radhi’s detention extended after forced confession

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by the supreme court in Manama on 30 August to extend journalist and blogger (...)

Published on 6 September 2012 Read

Syria

Government forces reportedly holding three foreign journalists

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is very worried about three foreign journalists – Turkish cameraman Cüneyt Ünal and Jordanian (...)

Published on 31 August 2012 Read