In the summer 2016 issue of Index on Censorship magazine award-winning journalist Lindsey Hilsum asks if reporters should still be heading to warzones.
CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Bahrain: Nabeel Rajab trial postponed until 16 April
The trial of jailed Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab on charges of spreading “rumours and false news” was deferred for a second time on 7 March until 16 April.
Zaina Erhaim: “No one is left in Aleppo”
The Index-award winning journalist Zaina Erhaim was due to travel to the USA this month along with three other Syrian women to screen their documentary series, Syria’s Rebellious Women
Inside Syria’s war: The extreme dangers faced by local reporters
A Syrian citizen journalist on the realities of reporting in a country where a pseudonym and bulletproof vest offer little protection from constant danger
Bahrain: Rights activist facing two trials in March
Bahrain’s government continues its judicial harassment of Nabeel Rajab
Bahrain’s Day of Rage, six years on
A reading list looking at Bahrain’s uprising six years on.
Murad Subay: Yemen’s war makes a month feel like a year
The Index award winner talks about the war in Yemen, president Trump’s travel ban his involvement in a prize for aspiring artists from around the world
Groups urge Boris Johnson to call for release of Nabeel Rajab
International organisations call on the British foreign minister to pressure Bahrain to end judicial harassment of human rights advocate Nabeel Rajab
Bahrain: Court postpones trial of Nabeel Rajab for an eighth time
A Bahraini court has postponed human rights activist Nabeel Rajab’s trial date for an eighth time until 21 February
Bahrain renews detention of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab
Index award-winning human rights activist Nabeel Rajab’s pre-trial detention was renewed for a further 15 days by Bahrain’s Public Prosecution on 5 January according to Nabeel’s lawyer.