Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the harassment, defamation and threats to which three Lebanese women journalists were subjected on social media last week and calls on the authorities to provide them with protection.
Two Palestinian journalists were arrested by Israeli security forces in Jerusalem yesterday and were placed in administrative detention today, bringing the total now held administratively by the Israelis to 13. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Israel’s misuse of administrative detention to hound Palestinian reporters.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) call for the urgent release of Abduljalil Al-Singace, a blogger jailed for the past ten and a half years in Bahrain who has been on hunger strike for nearly three months in protest against the treatment he is receiving in prison.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Samir Kassir Foundation call on the Lebanese authorities to reverse their decision to deny a Reuters journalist entry without giving any reason, which sets a disturbing precedent for the future of journalism in Lebanon.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian blogger who has been imprisoned for the past two years and whose mental state is now alarming. The Egyptian authorities will be held responsible for whatever happens to him, RSF says.