The Observatory for the Freedom of Press, Publishing and Creation in Tunisia was set up as a monitoring body with the goal of tracking all forms of...
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Maharat Foundation
The Maharat Foundation is a team of young journalists who experienced first-hand the difficulties faced by free press in Lebanon and the Arab world....
International Media Support
International Media Support is committed to freedom of expression and supports local media in countries affected by armed conflict, human insecurity...
Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR)
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights is an organisation working against both governmental and non-governmental human rights violations...
Centre algérien pour la défense et la promotion de la liberté de la presse
The aim of Centre Algérien pour la défense et la promotion de la liberté de la presse is to inform the international media about press freedom...
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR)
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights promotes human rights in Bahrain. BCHR encourages and supports individuals and groups to be proactive in the...
Yemen media walk out
Yemeni journalists walked out from a press conference in protest on Tuesday after the minister Rashad Al-Alimi failed to overturn a recent...
Banned Iranian and Chinese directors premiere at Cannes
China's Lou Ye and Iran's Bahman Ghobadi are both at Cannes Film Festival with movies made undercover after they were barred from working by the...
Saberi leaves Iran but misses premiere at Cannes
US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has left Iran, and flown to Austria with her family after being acquitted of espionage charges on Monday. A film...
Saberi ‘had classified document’
A lawyer for US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi says she was convicted of spying for the US partly because she had obtained a classified document,...