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Four newspaper editors sentenced to a year’s labour for libelling president and ruling party

A Cairo criminal court yesterday sentenced four newspaper editors to a year’s forced labour and the maximum possible fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds (2,600 euros) ..

Hamas disbands journalists union amid continuing incidents

Reporters Without Borders today condemned Hamas’ decision on 3 September to dissolve the Gaza Strip branch of the Union of Palestinian Journalists,..

Newspaper editor’s trial adjourned again

A Casablanca court adjourned newspaper editor Ahmed Benchemsi’s trial again during a second hearing on 31 August...

CBS interpreter murder brings toll of journalists and media workers killed since start of war to 200

Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay on learning of the murder of Anwar Abbas Lafta, an Iraqi translator and interpreter employed by the US television network CBS News. Lafta痴 body was found on 25 August, five days after he was abducted in Baghdad. His death brings the number of journalists and media workers killed in Iraq since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003 to 200. 展e are appalled by this latest murder and by the new overall toll,・the press ..

A journalist arrested and sent to Evin prison, another gets three-year sentence

Reporters Without Borders called today for the release of Farshad Gorbanpour, who was arrested yesterday along with fellow journalist Masoud Bastani on the orders of Tehran prosecutor Said Mortazavi. Bastani was freed after several hours but Gorbanpour was transferred to Evin prison. This brings the number of journalists and cyber-dissidents detained in Iran to 11...

France urged to link cooperation with Egypt to better respect for human rights

Reporters Without Borders wrote to French President Nicolas Sarkozy today asking him to intercede on behalf of imprisoned blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman and imprisoned journalist Abd al-Munim Gamal al Din Abd al-Munim when he receives a visit from his Egyptian counterpart, Hosni Mubarak, on 2 August...

Media diversity in danger in Gaza Strip and West Bank

The partition of the Palestinian Territories resulting from the Islamist party Hamas’ takeover in the Gaza Strip in June has eroded media diversity, Reporters Without Borders said today. Broadcast media that are affiliated to Fatah or support it have stopped operating in Gaza, while pro-Hamas journalists are exposed to threats in the West Bank, controlled by the Palestinian Authority...

Two journalists being held for publishing internal security memo on terrorist threat

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Abderrahim Ariri, the publisher of the weekly Al Watan Al An (The Nation Now), and one of his journalists, Mostapha Hurmatallah, yesterday in Casablanca after they published the text of an internal security memo circulated by the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DGST), an intelligence agency...