Middle East & North Africa

  

CPJ protests ongoing detention of two journalists

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to protest the ongoing detention of free-lance journalists Ibrahim Hussein and Abdel Rahim Mohsen. On June 21, plainclothes police officers arrested Hussein the office of the Yemeni Unionist Party, according to CPJ sources. Mohsen was arrested at his home on May 23.

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Camera crews detained; journalist attacked by thugs

New York, June 28, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) protests the harassment by Egyptian police of several reporters covering yesterday’s runoff parliamentary elections in the northern city of Alexandria. Egyptian police detained two journalists from U.A.E.­based Abu Dhabi TV and two others from German television channel ZDF as they tried to film at polling…

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Camera crews detained; journalist attacked by thugs

New York, June 28, 2002–The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) protests the harassment by Egyptian police of several reporters covering yesterday’s runoff parliamentary elections in the northern city of Alexandria. Egyptian police detained two journalists from U.A.E.­based Abu Dhabi TV and two others from German television channel ZDF as they tried to film at polling…

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Reuters cameraman comes under gunfire

related article: Press freedom crisis worsens in the occupied territories >New York, June 26, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about an incident yesterday in which a Reuters television cameraman came under gunfire in the West Bank town of Hebron.

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Internet journalist sentenced to twenty-eight months in prison

New York, June 20, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the 28-month prison sentence handed down today in the trial of Zouhair Yahyaoui, editor of the online publication Tunezine. A Tunis court found Yahyaoui guilty of intentionally publishing false information, a violation of Article 306 of the country’s Penal Code. The charge was in…

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CPJ protests the arrest and prosecution of Internet journalist

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect to Journalists (CPJ) is writing to protest the arrest and prosecution of Zouhair Yahyaoui, an Internet café employee and editor of the online publication Tunezine.

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Middle East Special Report: Picking Up the Pieces

Israeli troops destroyed several Palestinian broadcast outlets during the West Bank offensive. Was it an attempt to silence the media?

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JOURNALISM’S TERRIBLE TOLL: CPJ releases new statistics

389 journalists killed between 1992 and 2001, most murdered with impunity New York, June 4, 2002–The majority of journalists killed in the line of duty during the last decade were murdered because of their reporting, concludes a study released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists. This comprehensive analysis of journalists killed between 1992 and…

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Four journalists remain in detention

New York, May 28, 2002—Reuters photographer Suhaib Jadallah Salem was released by Israeli authorities yesterday after being detained for five days. According to Reuters news reports, no charges were filed. Israeli authorities detained Salem on May 22 at the Abu Holi checkpoint in the Gaza Strip. Reuters reported that Salem was attempting to enter the…

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Attacks Against Journalists in the West Bank and Gaza since September 2000

See list of recent news alerts about Israel and the West Bank   Click on links for more details: May 24, 2002. Suhaib Jadallah Salem, Reuters: Detained April 30, 2002. Youssry al-Jamal, Reuters: Arrested April 24, 2002. Mazen Dana, Reuters, and Hussam Abu Alan, Agence France-Presse: Harassed April 22, 2002. 17 Palestinian and foreign journalists:…

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