Western correspondents get to choose when they face danger. Journalists in Egypt deal with it every day – Richard Hall’s Independent Article There are no safety provisions for independent journalists in Egypt and other authoritarian [ More … ]
Tensions in the Gulf between the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran have been exacerbated this week with the deployment of Houthi strikes on the neighboring kingdom. Yemen’s Houthis launched two attacks on a Saudi airport [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) unveils portraits of Egyptian journalists jailed by the Sisi regime in Cairo While French President Emmanuel Macron prepares was to go on a state visit to Cairo on 27 January, Reporters [ More … ]
Three times more journalists were jailed this year on “false news” charges than in 2016 — and Egypt led the way, reported Poynter. According to a new report published by the Committee to Protect Journalists on [ More … ]
Late on Tuesday, Egyptian police raided the office of a news website and arrested its editor-in-chief, according to three of its journalists, including its managing editor. The raid came two days after the Supreme Council [ More … ]
Ahead of a farcical election, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi goes after the press. His tone has turned dark, with threats and talk of conspiracies. Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi could not ask for a better mouthpiece than Khairy Ramadan, a [ More … ]
Lawmakers have drafted a new law to punish “political commentators and intellectuals” for defaming historical symbols. Egypt has witnessed a widening crackdown on free expression with fresh arrests and raids, according to Deutsche Welle. Local [ More … ]
The General People’s Congress lost its mouthpiece publication on Tuesday, after Houthi rebels banned the al-Mithaq newspaper, in what seems to be deepening tensions between the former allies. Yemen’s Houthi rebels banned a newspaper owned [ More … ]
Israeli forces suppressed a peaceful march organized by Palestinian journalists on World Press Freedom Day in front of Ofer prison in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on Wednesday. Israeli forces used tear [ More … ]
At least 13 Palestinian journalists were injured as Israeli police forcibly evacuated a peaceful sit-in held in support of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. Palestinian journalists were injured when Israeli [ More … ]
The Journalist Support Committee (JSC) said that Israel’s military and security forces committed 47 violations against journalists and media workers during July 2016. In a recent report, the JSC said that the Israeli army and [ More … ]
The Israeli army demolished 12 Palestinian homes overnight in Qalandiya town, north of Occupied Jerusalem Under the escort of Israeli forces, bulldozers entered the village, at the pretext of their location near the segregation wall. [ More … ]
By: Ibrahim Karagül* Turkey encountered the most flagrant and disgusting attack of all times. Our country, our people, our state, values and patriotism, our history writing strength, the political mind of President Erdoğan and the [ More … ]
Under Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s military regime, prominent political opposition as the Muslim Brotherhood and their grassroots activists are imprisoned, growing media is censored, and journalists and human rights activists are repressed. However, one of the [ More … ]
The Lebanese broadcast journalist and TV host Liliane Daoud was arrested at her Cairo house late on Monday and transported to an airport for deportation, her Lawyer Ziad El-Elaimy said on his Facebook account, according [ More … ]
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