Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails today’s release of Mahmoud Abou Zeid, the Egyptian photojournalist also known as Shawkan, after more than five and a half years in prison, but deplores that the fact that he is still only half free because he is supposed to spend 12 out of every 24 hours in a police station for the next five years.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Israel’s “cruel” plans to deport Mustafa al-Kharouf, a stateless Palestinian photographer based in East Jerusalem, and calls on the authorities to free him and stop denying him residency papers.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrests to which two investigative reporters have been subjected in different parts of Iraq in the past few days in connection with their coverage of corruption, and calls for an end to the harassment of these journalists.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an independent international investigation into the fate of Jamal Khashoggi, the dissident Saudi journalist who has been missing ever since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a week ago. His disappearance has come amid a particularly harsh and opaque crackdown on Saudi journalists and bloggers.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Turkish authorities to guarantee the safety of journalists during their military operations after shots fired by Turkish soldiers injured two Syrian Kurdish journalists in the border town of Tal Abyad, in northeastern Syria, on 2 November.