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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Middle East & North Africa - 4 August 2011

Alarming statement and constant harassment offer no respite for journalists

Middle East & North Africa - 4 August 2011

Arab Spring and repression continue from Rabat to Manama

Qatar - 3 August 2011

Government develops “National Internet” to combat international Internet’s impact

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Writer and journalist Michel Kilo, 67, is an emblematic figure in the struggle for democracy in Syria. In his articles for Arab newspapers such as An-Nahar, Al-Hayat, As-Safir and Al Quds Al Arabi, he is well known for his acerbic political analyses.

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