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Despotic regimes continue to obstruct coverage of revolutions

Published on 1 September 2011Read

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Four Italian journalists released after being held for 24 hours

Published on 25 August 2011Read

Foreign journalists able to leave Rixos Hotel

Reporters Without Borders is pleased that the foreign journalists being held in the Rixos Hotel were finally allowed to leave at around 5 p.m. (...)

Published on 24 August 2011 Read

NATO attacks on national TV headquarters and installations in Tripoli

Reporters Without Borders condemns NATO airstrikes on the Tripoli headquarters of the state-owned national TV broadcaster Al-Jamahiriya and two (...)

Published on 1 August 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

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

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Libya - 1 September 2011

Hunger striking blogger’s health and prison conditions much worse

Middle East & North Africa - 1 September 2011

Despotic regimes continue to obstruct coverage of revolutions

Libya - 30 August 2011

Leading independent newspaper editor badly beaten

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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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