Israeli radio station targeted by fake free speech campaign

June 24th, 2011

Activists have attacked the Army Radio with a bizarre phone message scam, reports Daniella Peled

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Terror group threaten Brüno star

July 28th, 2009

Palestinian militant organisation, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade that was ridiculed in the new Sacha Baron Cohen film has threatened to “respond in the way we find suitable” against the London-born satirist. The armed wing of the Fatah movement, has condemned the film Brüno , in which Cohen plays a gay Austrian fashionista, as “part of a conspiracy” against them. Read more here

Reporter held by Fatah

January 20th, 2009

Index on Censorship has received a report that Al-Ahram Weekly‘s correspondent in the West Bank, Khalid Amayreh, was arrested by the Palestinian Authority’s Preventive Security Service last night following a interview with Al-Quds TV station in which he accused the PSS of preventing Palestinians in the west bank from organising massive pro-Gaza demonstrations. (more…)