Cairo – Several experts on Islamic movements assert that United States President Donald Trump's executive order to ban citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries will have its negative ripple effects on Muslim Brothers (MB) living and working in (...)
Each year, the world is reminded of Saudi Arabia's influential status as the birthplace of Islam, as hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe make the Hajj, or pilgrimage, to the city of Mecca. Perhaps owing to its pivotal role within (...)
TWO days after the country's highest court had delivered its say on the legality of both the Shura Council and the assembly that wrote the new constitution, the matter continues to draw wide political and media reactions.
Immediate reactions to the (...)
PRESIDENT Mohamed Morsi conferred yesterday with representatives of political parties and movements as well as with key public figures to apprise them of the conclusions of a report drafted by a 3-state technical panel on the Ethiopian Renaissance (...)
Egypt witnessed yet another new and ugly form of street violence this week with the attacks on two of Egypt's renowned icons of art and culture.
Early this week Egyptians woke up to find that there had been barbaric assaults on statues of two of (...)
strongly condemns the actions of President Mohamed Morsi's supporters who deliberately fired on journalists and attacked them as they were covering last night's clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo.
Al-Hosseiny Abu Deif, an experienced (...)
is very worried by the signs of a decline in respect for freedom of information – including visa problems, filming bans, arbitrary arrest and deportation – since the election of the General National Congress on 7 July.
Several foreign journalists (...)
condemns manoeuvres orchestrated by members of the regime and media close to the Revolutionary Guards with the aim of intimidating newspapers and journalists.
In the latest example, the reformist newspaper Shargh was suspended yesterday, its editor (...)
is dismayed to learn that a Muscat court sentenced Mukhtar Al-Hinai, a journalist with the daily Al-Zaman, to a year in prison and a fine of 1,000 riyals (2,100 euros) on 16 September on charges of lèse-majesté and violating the cyber-crime law.
“We (...)
is very worried by the Jordanian government's approval of a bill last week that would radically change the existing media legislation and drastically restrict freedom of information. Parliament is due to begin considering the bill on 2 (...)
is alarmed by the restrictions on media freedom resulting from recent decisions by Egypt's newly-elected authorities.
It is also very worried about today's decision by a criminal court judge in Giza to detain Islam Afifi, the editor of the daily (...)
Mosaab Mohamed Saeed Al-Odaallah, a journalist working for the arts and culture section of the government newspaper Tishreen, was killed today by government soldiers after they entered his home in the southern Damascus district of Nahar Aisha, (...)
vigorously protests prison sentences meted out this month to 20 bloggers and Internet writers who have criticized the government.
“These sentences for supposed defamation," the press freedom organization said, “are part of a government campaign (...)
condemns today's bombing of the state TV station's headquarters in the high-security district of Omeyyades in Damascus. The bomb exploded on the third floor of the building, where the management offices are located. The exact number of casualties (...)
Six human Rights organizations make public a letter sent to the French President raising their concerns following an unannounced meeting with the King of Bahrain, on 23 July. No official statement was issued after the meeting.
This letter has been (...)
expresses satisfaction with the recommendations and conclusions of the independent inquiry commission set up by the Palestinian president into police violence against demonstrators and journalists during protests in Ramallah on 30 June and 1 (...)
has learned that Fatima Khaled Saad, a young citizen journalist based in the port city of Latakia, has been held for the past month following her arrest on 28 June.
“We constantly discover violations of freedom of information that have been (...)
strongly condemns the one-year sentences imposed on six netizens by the Muscat Court of First Instance on 16 July.
“We are shocked by the number of convictions of netizens and human rights activists, whose only offence was to exercise their right to (...)
In the United Arab Emirates, claiming one's rights is treated as a crime against state security, as demonstrated by another wave of arrests of campaigners and human rights activists between 16 and 19 July. Eighteen people were arrested, of whom 17 (...)
The Egyptian Football Association has decided the 2012-2013 season will be held, a direct challenge to the Ministry of Interior which cancelled the domestic competition, Inas Mazhar reports
Reacting to the decision by the Ministry of Interior which (...)
is relieved that the two Tobacts TV journalists who were arrested in Bani Walid on 7 July – reporter Abdul Qadir Fassouk and cameraman Yousuf Badi – were freed today after being flown by helicopter yesterday to Jadu, in the western Nefusa (...)
is deeply saddened to learn of the murders of two more citizen journalists. Confirmation has also been received of the deaths of three others, of whom at least one lost his life in the course of journalistic activity.Suhaib Dib was the victim of a (...)
On 7 July, an appeal court in the eastern city of Annaba quashed a two-month prison sentence for libel imposed late last month on Fatma-Zohra Amara, a journalist with the newspaper Akher Sâa.
“Although we are admittedly relieved that the prison (...)
unreservedly condemns the abduction and continuing detention of Libyan cameraman Abdelqader Fosouk and Youssuf Badi in Bani Walid (150 km southeast of Tripoli), one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds to fall to the rebels during last year's (...)
KUALA LUMPUR: Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed to learn that the blogger Syed Abdullah Hussein Al-Attas has been held since yesterday under the Official Secrets Act as a result of a complaint by a group of 30 people over controversial (...)