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 … ]
The world’s leading professional organization for journalists- the National Press Club (NPC)- has expressed its deep concern over the Egyptian court verdict to uphold death penalties for three journalists. Egypt’s court had confirmed Egypt’s Grand [ More … ]
Egypt Administrative Court ruled the invalidity of the controversial demarcation agreement that stipulates the transfer of Tiran and Sanafir islands to Suadi Arabia. A number of lawsuits were filed in an attempt to nullify the [ More … ]
Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced the first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison and an additional 15-year prison sentence in what is known as the Qatar espionage case. Life sentences in Egypt are [ More … ]
Mubarak’s old guards are returning back to the scene. Habib al-Adly, the last Interior Minister during Mubarak era, has returned back to the Egyptian scene through a “Media Empire”. Al-Wafd, organ of the Egyptian [ More … ]
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