Reporters Without Borders

Respect for freedom of expression worsening in Egypt Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday’s decision by a military court in Cairo to postpone the hearing of jailed blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad’s appeal until 11 October.
8 October 2011
Massacres continue far from cameras Massacres continue far from cameras in Syria and Yemen, situation stabilizes in Bahrain.
18 July 2011
Journalists beaten by police in central Tunis “The police violence against journalists in the past two days is like a bad memory, ” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said. “It is as if the old methods were back just four months after President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s fall.
10 May 2011
Media continue to be targets as governments crack down on protests As more and more people take to the streets in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen to demand democratic reforms and change, the authorities in these countries are responding with violence and are cracking down on the journalists who try to cover these protests.
25 February 2011
Tunisian Revolution The Tunisians got rid of Ben Ali in less than a month and have revealed his clan's corruption whose tentacles tightly gripped the Tunisian power and economy.
19 February 2011
Reporters Without Borders in Tunisia: A new freedom that needs protecting Reporters Without Borders visited Tunisia from 2 to 4 February to evaluate the situation of the media two weeks after the fall of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, to analyze their needs and to determine what contribution it could make during this transition period.
10 February 2011
International media does not escape violence unleashed by Mubarak supporters Reporters Without Borders unreservedly condemns today’s shocking attacks on BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, Al-Arabiya and ABC News journalists by Mubarak supporters who were reportedly accompanied by plainclothes police.
3 February 2011
Wave of arrests of bloggers and activists Reporters Without Borders condemned the arrests and disappearances yesterday of bloggers and online activists across a number of Tunisian cities. The worldwide press freedom organization has monitored at least five such cases but the list could well be longer.
7 January 2011