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Deadly summer

Arab Spring and repression continue from Rabat to Manama

Published on 4 August 2011Read

Persecution of dissidents

Preventive arrests and "German chair" for detainees in Syria

Published on 26 July 2011Read

Disturbing wave of prosecutions on eve of national dialogue

Reporters Without Borders accuses the authorities of continuing to crack down on journalists and media freedom in violation of the spirit for the (...)

Published on 30 June 2011 Read

One blogger sentenced to life imprisonment, another to 15 years in jail

Reporters Without Borders is shocked by the long jail sentences that a military court passed today on 21 activists accused of belonging to (...)

Published on 22 June 2011 Read

Journalist deported, others tried in Bahrain, reporter kidnapped, others hounded in Yemen

BAHRAIN Finian Cunningham, an Irish journalist and writer who has been living in Bahrain for years, was “invited to leave” by the Bahraini (...)

Published on 22 June 2011 Read

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

France 24 correspondent tortured for covering pro-democracy demonstrations

When Nazeeha Saeed, the Bahrain correspondent of France 24 and Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya, was summoned to a police station in the city of Rifa’a (...)

Published on 30 May 2011 Read

Amid international indifference, targeted repression continues in Bahrain and Yemen

BAHRAIN In the past few days, the authorities have arrested more photographers and photo-journalists who had been covering the pro-democracy (...)

Published on 24 May 2011 Read

Iran frees Parvaz, Libya frees four other journalists

IRAN Reporters Without Borders is relieved by the release of the Al-Jazeera journalist Homa Dorothy Parvaz, who had disappeared on arriving (...)

Published on 18 May 2011 Read

News photographers among crackdown’s latest targets

Many photographers who have been covering the pro-democracy protests taking place in Bahrain since mid-February have been arrested in the past (...)

Published on 17 May 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

Bahrain - 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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