International Media Support is committed to freedom of expression and supports local media in countries affected by armed conflict, human insecurity and political transition. IMS activities cover three thematic areas of engagement. In addition to...
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights is an organisation working against both governmental and non-governmental human rights violations regardless of the identity or affiliation of the victim(s) or violator(s).
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...
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights promotes human rights in Bahrain. BCHR encourages and supports individuals and groups to be proactive in the protection of their own and others' rights; and to struggle to promote democracy and human rights.
Yemeni journalists walked out from a press conference in protest on Tuesday after the minister Rashad Al-Alimi failed to overturn a recent suspension of publications and blockade of news websites. The Committee to Project Journalists says the...
China's Lou Ye and Iran's Bahman Ghobadi are both at Cannes Film Festival with movies made undercover after they were barred from working by the authorities at home. " Read more here and here
US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi has left Iran, and flown to Austria with her family after being acquitted of espionage charges on Monday. A film on censorship in Iranian music, co-scripted by Saberi and directed by 2006 Index on Censorship...
A lawyer for US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi says she was convicted of spying for the US partly because she had obtained a classified document, containting a confidential Iranian report on the US war in Iraq - but had not used it. Read more here
Israeli police have arrested journalist Amira Hass upon her return from the Gaza Strip over being in violation of a military ban on Israeli citizens visiting the Palestinian Territories. Read more here
The release of more photos of prisoner abuse by US soldiers is "of no benefit" and may inflame opinion against the US, President Barack Obama has said, retreating on his previous position. Read more here