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Overview of media freedom violations of past few days

Published on 8 March 2011Read

All-out censorship

Pro-democracy demonstrations lead to attacks on journalists, arrests

Published on 18 February 2011Read

Does blocking of independent radio station’s website herald start of Internet censorship by Algeria?

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed to learn that access to the website of the independent news radio station, Radio Kalima-Algérie (...)

Published on 19 March 2010 Read

Tébessa-based reporter gets six months in prison

Reporters Without Borders condemns the six-month jail sentence that a court in Tébessa (460 km east of Algiers) passed yesterday on Rabah (...)

Published on 17 July 2009 Read

Two Moroccan journalistes prevented from covering presidential election

Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday’s arrest of two Moroccan journalists, Hicham El Madraoui and Mahfoud Aït Bensaleh, who had gone to (...)

Published on 10 April 2009 Read

Three French publications banned on the eve of presidential election

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the Algerian government’s decision to ban distribution of the current issues of three French publications (...)

Published on 8 April 2009 Read

Reporters Without Borders sent the following open letter today to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Dear Mr. President, As you will undoubtedly win a third term in the 9 April presidential elections, Reporters Without Borders, an organisation (...)

Published on 6 April 2009 Read

Regional newspaper editor freed after a day and a half in prison

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Al-Waha editor Nedjar El-Hadj Daoud yesterday evening in the southern city of Ghardaïa, where he (...)

Published on 4 March 2009 Read

Newspaper reporter sentenced in absentia to a year in prison for libel

Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the one-year prison sentence which Layadi El-Amine Yahia, a correspondent of the daily Le Carrefour (...)

Published on 18 February 2009 Read

Hooded assailants launch knife attack against journalist

Reporters Without Borders today urged the Algerian authorities to ensure an effective investigation into a murder attempt against Hafnaoui Ghoul, (...)

Published on 12 January 2009 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

Algeria - 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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