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Preventive arrests and "German chair" for detainees in Syria

Published on 26 July 2011Read

Police on trial

Court postpones trial of policemen accused of beating netizen to death

Published on 1 July 2011Read

Two more journalists to be tried by court martial over story about army

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to see that Egyptian journalists and bloggers are still being prosecuted before military courts, (...)

Published on 20 June 2011 Read

Two more journalists summoned by military court

Hossam Al-Suwaifi, a reporter for the newspaper Al-Wafd, and Sayyid Abdel Ati, the editor of the newspaper’s weekly edition, were questioned by (...)

Published on 6 June 2011 Read

Court martial sentences blogger to three years in prison for criticizing military

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the three-year jail sentence that a military court has passed on the blogger and conscientious (...)

Published on 11 April 2011 Read

Military police arrest blogger for criticizing armed forces

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that Maikel Nabil Sanad, a blogger and conscientious objector, had been arrested by the military (...)

Published on 31 March 2011 Read

Journalists targeted by governments desperate to control news

LIBYA Reporters Without Borders has learned that Fatma Ben Dhaou, a Tunisian journalist who had gone to Libya for the newspaper Le Quotidien, (...)

Published on 23 March 2011 Read

Blogger Kareem Amer released

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of the blogger Kareem Amer on 10 February. He had been arrested on the evening of 7 February as he (...)

Published on 14 February 2011 Read

Mubarak’s departure must usher in new era for civil liberties

A month after the fall of Tunisia’s Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, today’s resignation by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is fuelling hopes for freedom (...)

Published on 11 February 2011 Read

Tally of cases of abuses against journalists

Reporters Without Borders is posting a provisional tally of cases of abuses against journalists and media since the start of the violence on 2 (...)

Published on 4 February 2011 Read

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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

Egypt - 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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