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Unacceptable harassment

Renewed threats against AFP bureau in Amman

Published on 28 July 2011Read

Persecution of dissidents

Preventive arrests and "German chair" for detainees in Syria

Published on 26 July 2011Read

Ali Al-Abdallah freed

Reporters Without Borders notes that the writer and journalist Ali Al-Abdallah was freed yesterday (20 July). 18.07.2011 Opposition journalist (...)

Published on 16 July 2011 Read

Attack on AFP’s Amman bureau, media counter-offensive by Syrian regime

JORDAN Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns an attack on the Agence France-Presse bureau in Amman on 15 June by a dozen men armed with (...)

Published on 18 June 2011 Read

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

Journalists continue to be harassed in different ways throughout the Middle East

SYRIA Reuters television producer Ayat Basma and cameraman Ezzat Baltaji were released on 28 March after being held for two days but Reporters (...)

Published on 30 March 2011 Read

Overview of media freedom violations of past few days

Reporters Without Borders presents an overview of the acts of violence against journalists and other media freedom violations that have taken (...)

Published on 8 March 2011 Read

Government yields to protests and modifies cyber crimes law

Reporters Without Borders hails the withdrawal of some of the most repressive provisions in the temporary law on cyber crimes in an amendment (...)

Published on 1 September 2010 Read

New law allows government to regulate online content

Reporters Without Borders is worried by a provisional cyber crimes law that the government decreed on 3 August and calls for its repeal. By (...)

Published on 12 August 2010 Read

Media coverage of corruption case censored for fear of criticism

Reporters Without Borders condemns the order issued by an Amman military court on 10 March banning the media from covering a case of alleged (...)

Published on 15 March 2010 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

Jordan - 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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