Posts Tagged ‘Une – Moyen Orient – 1’

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders, which has consultative status with the United Nations, has submitted its observations and recommendations on freedom of Information in Yemen to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of Yemen's Universal Periodic Review by the council during its 18th session in January and February 2014. In its submission, Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern about the situation of journalists, ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the deteriorating security situation in Libya and the behaviour of certain militias towards media personnel. Journalists have repeatedly been attacked, threatened or kidnapped by militias in recent months. RWB urges the Libyan government to guarantee the safety of journalists and to control the behaviour of militias operating under the command of the defence or ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders is very worried about two French journalists, reporter Didier François and photographer Edouard Elias, who went missing yesterday in northern Syria. Their employer, French radio station Europe 1, said there has been no word from them since yesterday morning, when they were on the road to Aleppo. “We call for the immediate release of François and Elias, who are well-known for their ... Full story

New information obtained by human rights organizations has heightened concerns about the secret detention and failing health of a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who has not been heard from since his arrest eight months ago. Khalil Ma'touq, the 54-year-old director of the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research, was arrested along with his friend and assistant, 48-year-old Mohammed Thatha, on 2 October last ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) The following is a joint appeal to three UN Special Rapporteurs calling for an investigation to torture in Bahraini prisons. The appeal, signed by over 50 NGOs, was initiated by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights : 22 May 2013 Dear Special Rapporteurs Mendez, Sekaggya and La Rue, We the undersigned NGOs worldwide are ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders expresses outrage at the Abu Dhabi appeals court confirmation of the 10-month prison sentence of netizen Abdullah Al-Hadidi. The appeals court made its ruling on 22 May. Arrested on 22 March, Al-Hadidi was convicted in a lower court in April of having disseminated information on Twitter “in bad faith.” The information concerned the trial of 94 UAE citizens ... Full story

Reporters Without Borders has written an open letter to the eight approved candidates in the Islamic Republic of Iran's 11th presidential election, requesting that they publicly commit themselves to support freedom of information. The list of eight approved candidates published yesterday by the Guardian Council – whose members are directly chosen and appointed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – offers little hope that the 14 ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Read in Russian / Читать по-русски Read in Chinese / 看中文 (Amsterdam, Beirut, Cairo, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dublin, Geneva, London, New York, Paris, The Hague, Utrecht  - May 17, 2013) The international community should urge the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release and drop all charges against a freedom of expression activist and two of his colleagues, 19 regional and international ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns German freelance journalist Armin Wertz's detention by the Syrian authorities since 5 May. Shortly after his arrest by government forces in the battle-torn city of Aleppo, Wertz sent an SMS to a friend from his mobile phone saying the police were holding him. He asked the friend to notify his family but not make his detention public. ... Full story

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders hails President Moncef Marzouki's long-overdue announcement on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, of the composition of the nine-member Independent Broadcasting Authority (HAICA). Nouri Lejmi, a teacher at the Institute for Press and Information Sciences (IPSI), is to be its president. “We can only welcome this announcement, which has been awaited for the past year and a half,” ... Full story