Ukraine : journalists blacklisted
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#journalisme #Ukraine #russie #press_freedom #blacklist #Scoundrels #Donbass #Crimea
Ukraine : journalists blacklisted
▻http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Ukraine/Ukraine-journalists-blacklisted-171341
#journalisme #Ukraine #russie #press_freedom #blacklist #Scoundrels #Donbass #Crimea
Coverage of #ISIS in #Iraq plagued by rumors and misreporting
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/20197
An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) riding in a captured vehicle left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP / Welayat Salahuddin) An image uploaded on June 14, 2014 on the jihadist website Welayat Salahuddin allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) riding in a captured vehicle left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. (Photo: AFP / Welayat Salahuddin)
Chaos, incitement and sectarian instigation… that is the prevailing situation of Arab and Iraqi media outlets covering the (...)
#Culture_&_Society #Arab_Media #Articles #Mosul #Nouri_al-Maliki #press_freedom #Salah_ad_Din
A call for autonomous #Media
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19378
A caricuture showing a computer upside down with “the truth” on the screen and “deceptive media” next to it. (Photo: Mohammed Sabra) A caricuture showing a computer upside down with “the truth” on the screen and “deceptive media” next to it. (Photo: Mohammed Sabra)
What happens when the media becomes intricately linked to one of the warring sides of a conflict, so much so that it becomes indistinguishable from one political party or its opposition?
Lara Bitar
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#Opinion #Arab_World #Articles #Censorship #Damascus #Lebanon #press_freedom #syria #Tunis
#Lebanon in urgent need of new press law
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-urgent-need-new-press-law
A protester displays a placard during a rally to support #press_freedom in Hong Kong on March 2, 2014.(Photo: AFP-Philippe Lopez) A protester displays a placard during a rally to support press freedom in Hong Kong on March 2, 2014.(Photo: AFP-Philippe Lopez)
Clinging to obsolete laws that fail to strike a proper balance between freedom of expression and defamation, and legitimate criticism and injury to reputation, #Lebanon - generally hailed as a relatively liberal Arab country - has repeatedly cornered journalists, detained bloggers, and silenced activists in the name of legal justice.
Rana Harbi
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#Articles #Ashraf_Rifi #Ibrahim_al-Amin #Michel_Suleiman #Mohammed_Nazzal
Jazeera plans #Egypt embassy protests to win journalists’ freedom
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18798
Broadcaster #al-Jazeera called for vigils outside Egyptian embassies across the world on Thursday to press Egypt to free four of its journalists, three of whom have been charged with aiding a “terrorist organization”. The three from al-Jazeera’s English-language television service - Peter Greste, an Australian; Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian national; and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian - were detained in Cairo on December 29. read more
#Iran bans newly launched reformist newspaper
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18723
Iran’s judiciary has banned a newly launched reformist daily over an article seen as insulting to Islamic law, prosecutors said on Thursday. “Aseman newspaper has been banned for publishing an article that insults Islam’s sacred beliefs and articles against Islamic regulations,” the office of Tehran’s prosecutor said on its website. “In an article run by the newspaper on Tuesday, it called ’qesas’ inhumane,” it added in reference to the Islamic law of vengeance. The statement said #Aseman's managing director, Abbas Bozorgmehr, also faced prosecution. read more