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Joint letter

Need for strong and urgent Security Council action on Syria

Published on 30 September 2011Read

Middle East & North Africa

Escalating violence

Bloodbath in Yemen, violence throughout the region

Published on 27 September 2011Read

Middle East & North Africa

Convictions in Muscat, cameraman on life support in Sanaa, journalists injured in Libya and arbitrary arrests in Syria

OMAN Reporters Without Borders condemns the five-month jail sentences that a Muscat court passed today on Yousef Al-Haj, a journalist with (...)

Published on 21 September 2011 Read

Middle East & North Africa

Crackdowns on pro-democracy protests continue to affect journalists, Morocco and Tunisia still try to gag information

SYRIA Ahmed Bilal, a producer with Falesteen TV who is known to be a supporter of democratic change, was arrested yesterday in the Damascus (...)

Published on 15 September 2011 Read

Middle East & North Africa

Despotic regimes continue to obstruct coverage of revolutions

SYRIA Reporters Without Borders condemns the beating that Samer Al-Shami, a photographer for the SANA agency, received on 30 August and the (...)

Published on 1 September 2011 Read

Syria

Government announces schizophrenic media law

President Bashar Al-Assad yesterday approved changes to Syria’s media legislation that are part of a series of planned reforms intended to end an (...)

Published on 29 August 2011 Read

Syria

Systematic use of torture by security services

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the Syrian regime’s appalling repressive methods, which continue unchanged while the world’s media turns (...)

Published on 25 August 2011 Read

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International community must step up pressure on Syrian regime

Reporters Without Borders expresses its support for the call that UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay is expected to make today during a (...)

Published on 18 August 2011 Read

Syria

Arrests and beatings as information war continues

Reporters Without Borders continues to register cases of violence and arbitrary arrests in which the victims are anyone trying to provide (...)

Published on 17 August 2011 Read

Middle East & North Africa

Arab Spring and repression continue from Rabat to Manama

While Bahrain and Saudi Arabia use mainly technical means (including satellite jamming and website blocking) to obstruct media freedom, Yemen and (...)

Published on 4 August 2011 Read