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Ahmed Mansoor and four other pro-democracy activists pardoned and freed

Blogger Ahmed Mansoor and four other pro-democracy activists were pardoned by UAE President on 28 November 2011, after they were sentenced to (...)

Published on 24 October 2011 Read

Middle East/North Africa

Moroccan information minister has two Dubai TV journalists fired

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Moroccan information minister Khalid Naciri obtained the dismissal of Dubai TV chief editor (...)

Published on 30 June 2011 Read

Middle East/North Africa

Crackdown continues in Bahrain, bloggers go on trial in Emirates

BAHRAIN Regime officials have reportedly taken over the Facebook and Twitter pages of Rasad News, a major source of news about human rights (...)

Published on 16 June 2011 Read

United Arab Emirates

Use of most secure BlackBerry system restricted, bloggers arrested

Reporters Without Borders condemns a government decision to limit use of the BlackBerry smartphone’s most secure system, BlackBerry Enterprise (...)

Published on 28 April 2011 Read

Middle East/North Africa

No concessions to media as indiscriminate repression continues in countries with pro-democracy protests

BAHRAIN Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns netizen Zakariya Rashid Hassan’s death in detention on 9 April, six days after his arrest (...)

Published on 12 April 2011 Read

Middle East/North Africa

More arrests and disappearances in Libya and Syria, threats in Jordan and UAE

LIBYA It turns out that the four journalists Reporters Without Borders reported as missing yesterday were captured near Brega on 5 April by (...)

Published on 8 April 2011 Read

United Arab Emirates

Lack of transparency about BlackBerry’s concessions

The Emirati authorities appear to have reached an agreement with Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry (...)

Published on 11 October 2010 Read

United Arab Emirates

BlackBerry services suspended

Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday’s announcement by the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority that certain BlackBerry services such as (...)

Published on 2 August 2010 Read

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Iran - 23 May 2012

While pointing finger at Bahrain, Iran uses culture ministry to interrogate journalists

Yemen - 22 May 2012

Open letter from Reporters Without Borders to the Yemeni president

Iran - 22 May 2012

Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2012)

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