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Illegal NATO airstrikes

NATO attacks on national TV headquarters and installations in Tripoli

Published on 1 August 2011Read

Media hounded

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

Published on 18 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

Missing photographer was killed six weeks ago in attack by Gaddafi forces on Brega

Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that Anton Hammerl, a well-known photographer with South African and Austrian dual nationality who (...)

Published on 20 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

From Tripoli to Manama, no let-up in abuses against news media

SYRIA Anyone who dares to speak out continues to be exposed to arbitrary arrest. One of the latest victims is Omar Koush, a writer and (...)

Published on 2 May 2011 Read

Co-founder of independent newspaper dies in custody in Bahrain, some journalists freed in Syria and Libya

18.04.2011 Reporters Without Borders hails the release of the Syrian blogger Wassim Hassan by the authorities in Damascus. He had been held (...)

Published on 18 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

Gaddafi regime decides to deport 26 foreign journalists who had been invited to Tripoli

LIBYA Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the Libyan government’s decision to deport 26 foreign journalists on the grounds that their visas (...)

Published on 7 April 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

Libya - 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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