British filmmaker Asad Qureshi has been confirmed to be one of the group of men currently missing in Northern Waziristan, a mountainous tribal region on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. On 26 March, two former ISI agents set off with Qureshi and another British filmmaker to the area in order to conduct some interviews with Taliban leaders. No other reports have surfaced regarding their whereabouts.
Moroccan journalist Mohammed Attaoui was convicted of extortion and sentenced to two years in prison on March 22. He claims he was set up by a former source and a forestry ministry official. Attaoui said he gave him the money — about 1,000 dirhams (90 euros) — to travel to Rabat or Meknes to take a test for a promotion, but he was arrested two hours later by national guard officers. He has staged a hunger strike demanding a fair trial. Attaoui, an environmental correspondent for the daily newspaper Al-Monataf wrote an expose about the illegal cedar wood trade in Morocco, and was arrested just 20 days after it was published.
The injunction and indictment of activist Anat Kamm for leaking confidential documents has revealed some uncomfortable truths about Israeli attitudes to free expression, says Shaul Adar
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Richard Gizbert of Al Jazeera’s Listening Post interviewed Maziar Bahari at the Index on Censorship Free Expression Awards. Watch it below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uwBC03qZbc