The Middle East and North Africa Program @pressfreedom. لجنة حماية الصحفيين - الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا کمیته حمایت از خبرنگاران - خاورمیانه
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For this year's #WorldPressFreedomDay, the @CPJMENA program at @pressfreedom is highlighting the continuously deteriorating #PressFreedom climate in the #MENA region.
In 2021, MENA had the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world; 72. cpj.org/2021/12/in-middle-ea…
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#Yemen: Abdulkhaleq Amran, Akram al-Waleedi, Hareth Hameed, and Tawfiq al-Mansouri are approaching 7 years in Houthi detention and in danger of execution. Their physical and mental health continue to deteriorate.
No more delays. No more excuses. Not one more day. Free them now.
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A new video has emerged showing no fighting before the killing of Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, contrary to Israeli officials claims aje.io/ywpf82
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.@JoeBiden administration's plans to visit Israel this summer present an opportunity for the US to play an essential role in getting to the bottom of Shireen Abu Akleh's killing and holding the perpetrators to account
@POTUS @WhiteHouse @SecBlinken @StateDeptSpox @JakeSullivan46
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The Israeli military's refusal to open a criminal probe into #ShireenAbuAkleh's killing underscores the dire need for an independent international investigation. @pressfreedom calls on @Potus' administration to put Abu Akleh at the top of the US agenda with Israel.-@sherifmnsour
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CPJ MENA retweeted
The Israeli military's refusal to open a criminal probe into Shireen Abu Akleh's killing only underscores the dire need for an independent international investigation.
CPJ calls on @Potus' administration to put Abu Akleh at the very top of the U.S. agenda with Israel.
@PressSec
Israeli military will not conduct criminal probe into Al Jazeera reporter’s death - Israel News haaretz.com/israel-news/.pre….
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Activist Alaa Abd El Fattah has been transferred from Tora maximum security prison to Wadi al-Natrun prison complex, according to his mother Laila Soueif, who told Mada Masr that an official informed her of the news today when she arrived at Tora for a routine visit with her son.
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ماما لسة متبلغة حالا في طرة ان علاء اتنقل سجن وادي النطرون
Mama was just informed Alaa Abd El Fattah got transferred to the new Wadi El Natroun complex
I am not sure this is good or bad news, i am not sure this is true or another lie.
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حياة المدون و الناشط المصري #علاء_عبدالفتاح في خطر اليوم وهو بحاجة إلى دعمكم، يمكنكم الاستماع لشهادة شقيقته @sana2 عن الإنتهاكات التي تعرض لها ووضعه الحالي بالسجن.
#FreeAlaa #SaveAlaa
@Monasosh
@UKinEgypt
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#Egypt: Yesterday, authorities renewed the pretrial detention of @AlJazeera journalist Hisham Abdelaziz, arrested in 2019, for 45 days.
He is losing his sight and hearing in prison, since authorities keep denying him the medical attention he needs
More: cpj.org/data/people/hisham-a…
عاجل | السلطات المصرية تجدد حبس الزميل الصحفي بقناة #الجزيرة مباشر هشام عبد العزيز 45 يومًا حبسًا احتياطيًا
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#Algeria: In a hearing yesterday, state prosecutors called for a three-year prison sentence against journalist @ElkadiIhsane, director of @maghrebemergent & @radioM_me,.
The verdict will be delivered on May 31.
Read more here: bit.ly/3MsBmE6
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On May 18, 2021, authorities placed @ElkadiIhsane under judicial control, banned him from traveling, and confiscated his passport, after they charged him of spreading false news, disrupting elections, and "reopening a file of a national tragedy." algerie-eco.com/2022/05/17/t…
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Journalist @ElkadiIhsane's charges and judicial harassment came after former Minister of Communications Ammar Belhimer filed a complaint against him over an article he published on @radioM_me in March 2021. algerie-eco.com/2022/05/17/t…
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Following the Syria Case Hearing of #ThePeoplesTribunal; a peaceful gathering to commemorate murders of journalists, including Nabil Al Sharbaji, is now taking place in the Hague.
@mazenadarwish3
@SyrianCenter
We need a safer world for the truth.
#EndImpunity
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انفراجة أم تضييق؟.. واقع الصحافة في مصر مع "إطلاق سجناء الرأي" alhurra.com/egypt/2022/05/16…
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قالت خالة عبد الفتاح، الكاتبة أهداف سويف، لـ«مدى مصر» إن المحامين، حتى موعد كتابة هذه السطور، لم يتمكنوا من معرفة ما إذا كان عبد الفتاح ما زال محبوسًا بسجن طرة أم تم نقله.
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السلطات الأمنية تواصل لليوم 53 احتجازها غير القانوني لمراسل 218 #علي_الريفاوي
#ليبيا
للتفاصيل: wp.me/p8tV9E-1Pea
#218NEWS
@RSF_inter @nchr_ly @UNSMILibya
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The head of the National Human Rights Council requested on Tuesday that imprisoned activist Alaa Abd El Fattah be transferred to a different place of detention with better health facilities, as he continues a hunger strike he began in early April. madamasr.com/en/2022/05/17/n…
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#ایران:جمهوری اسلامی در هفتههای اخیر شماری از زنان فعال عرصه هنر و رسانه را بازداشت کرده و هنوز علل بازداشت و اتهامات مطروحه علیه آنان را اعلام نکرده است. این بانوان شامل #ریحانه_طراوتی عکاس، فیروزه خسروانی، مینا کشاورز و شیلان سعدی مستندساز و پریسا انواری مستندساز و عکاس است.
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#Lebanon:“We condemn the attack on @megaphone_news video journalist Hussein Bassal while he was covering the elections, and we demand an investigation that holds the perpetrators to account,” said @sherifmnsour.
cpj.org/2022/05/hezbollah-su…
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