Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory / Middle East & North Africa

  

Palestinian security officials arrest TV journalist for “dangerous security reasons”

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is writing to express its deep concern about the arrest of Maher al-Dessouki, a television journalist with the independent Al-Quds Educational TV station. On the morning of September 15, Palestinian Preventive Security Services (PSS) agents arrested al-Dessouki in the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment (LAW), he was accused by Palestinian authorities of “possessing material inciting against the PNA.”

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Lebanese reporter abducted by Israeli security forces in occupied south Lebanon

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonpartisan organization of journalists dedicated to the defense of press freedom worldwide, is writing to express grave concern about the case of Cosette Elias Ibrahim, a Lebanese journalism student and freelance reporter who was abducted by Israeli forces in the town of Rumaish in Israeli-occupied south Lebanon.

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Committee to Protect Journalists Alarmed By Efforts Of The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) To Silence Media

May 24,1999 His Excellency Yasser Arafat President Palestinian National Authority Al-Muntada, Gaza Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply alarmed by recent efforts by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to silence print and broadcast media in the West Bank and Gaza. On May 22 and May 23, Palestinian security authorities arrested three…

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Palestine News Agency Shut Down by Israeli Government

March 31, 1999 His Excellency Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of the State of Israel Office of the Prime Minister 3 Kaplan Street Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem, Israel Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-governmental organization of journalists devoted to upholding press freedom worldwide, is writing to express deep concern about the Israeli government’s…

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Palestine News Agency Shut Down by Israeli Government

March 31, 1999 His Excellency Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of the State of Israel Office of the Prime Minister 3 Kaplan Street Kiryat Ben-Gurion Jerusalem, Israel Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-governmental organization of journalists devoted to upholding press freedom worldwide, is writing to express deep concern about the Israeli government’s…

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Eight Journalists Wounded by IDF Fire in Hebron

For the second time in less than a year, a group of Palestinian reporters covering clashes in Hebron between Palestinians and Israelis were fired upon with rubber-coated metal bullets by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Eight journalists were wounded in the March 13 attack, which witnesses have characterized as the IDF’s intentional targeting of the…

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