TUNIS: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Sunday accused the authorities in Tunisia of engaging in a “relentless campaign” of intimidation and harassment of a journalists’ leader. The IFJ says Zied-el-Heni, a member of the leadership of the Syndicat national des journalistes tunisiens (SNJT) and of the steering committee of the African Federation of [...]

RABAT: Given the amount of violence and instability in countries with Muslim majorities, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, some people mistakenly assume the violence stems from Islamic teachings, when in fact Islam does not condone such actions. The media does not help the matter, often focusing on the activities of terrorists who claim to be [...]

RABAT: The cafe is packed with young kids frantically typing away at their individual computers. Here in Rabat, Morocco’s capital, the scene has become common, almost part of daily life for many Moroccans. But as the government continues to crackdown on users and bloggers, life has become tough. When Ibrahim Mohamed, who asked that his [...]

CAIRO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) “strongly resented” Tunisia’s use of security in raiding the house of opposition journalist Zouhair Makhlouf and assaulting him verbally and physically before dragging him “violently to Nikhailat police station in Ariana, in order to prevent him from meeting the Dean of French Lawyers Union, during his [...]

CAIRO: A report published by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said that female Egyptian journalists continue to suffer from discrimination against their access to positions of leadership. It said that women accounted for only 34 percent of the general assembly of the Egyptian Press Syndicate, in the annual report for March. The report, titled [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the order issued by an Amman military court on 10 March banning the media from covering a case of alleged corruption involving several leading Jordanian figures including a former finance minister. The case was exposed in the press several months ago. “This ban shows a lack of political will on [...]

Reporters Without Borders deplores the fines which a Kuwaiti criminal court imposed on a journalist, three newspapers and two members of parliament in three separate cases heard on 7 March. They all involved published reports containing comments considered offensive to the royal family or Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah. The fines which the [...]

Libya’s moves in late January, 2010, to block access to at least seven independent and opposition Libyan web sites based abroad and to YouTube is a disturbing step away from press freedom, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should restore web site access immediately, Human Rights Watch said. “These web sites were the one [...]