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Algeria: Media law reforms

Sara Yasin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:32:01 +0000

Algeria has announced plans for reforming stringent media laws in order to allow for private radio and television stations to operate for the first time since 1962. The cabinet of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika also pledged to stop jailing journalists for libel, and to free those already imprisoned on libel charges. A new commission will be created in order to regulate the press, rather than being under the control of the justice ministry, and the group would also include journalists. Newspapers could still face banning or suspension on the basis of “threatening state security”.

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Algeria: Protesters injured in unrest

Intern — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:13:54 +0000

A number of protesters have been injured during clashes with the police in a pro-democracy rally held in Algiers. The rally was held in protest to a new law that banned public gatherings. Protests to rising costs and unemployment started in Algeria following the Tunisian unrest that ended with the collapse of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s government.

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Microsoft Bing filters gay and lesbian search terms

Intern — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:01:30 +0000

A recent report by the OpenNet Initiative has revealed that search terms in both Arabic and English relating to homosexuality are censored in some Middle Eastern countries. The study showed that the level of censorship on Microsoft’s Bing ranged from ‘substantial’ to ‘pervasive’ and ‘selective’ in Algeria, Syria, Jordan and United Arab Emirates. Other sexually explicit search terms were also found to be censored.

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Centre algérien pour la défense et la promotion de la liberté de la presse

Index on Censorship — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:09:08 +0000

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 conditions in Algeria, provide support and orientation for foreign journalists in the country, training for journalists and media, and to monitor the state of press freedom in Algeria.

[No link is currently available.]

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