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Blogger to appear in court next week

Published on 13 July 2011Read

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Moroccan information minister has two Dubai TV journalists fired

Published on 30 June 2011Read

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wave of arrests of BlackBerry Messenger users

The Emirati authorities have been harassing and arresting users of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) who allegedly tried to organise a protest against (...)

Published on 29 July 2010 Read

Threatening comments about BlackBerry smartphones from telephone regulator

The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority warned yesterday that the use of BlackBerry smartphones posed a potential threat to national (...)

Published on 26 July 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

United Arab Emirates - 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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