An Arab-Israeli publisher has been ordered to stop importing Arabic-language books from Syria and Lebanon. Salah Abassi gave an interview to Israeli public radio on 11 August in which he stated that the Trade and Industry Ministry had ‘warned’ him...
Dissident Syrian freed Syrian dissident Aref Dalila has been freed by Syrian authorities seven years into his ten-year jail term. The economist was jailed in 2002 on charges of inciting armed rebellion, spreading false information and trying to...
The Crown Prosecution Service stated there is 'insufficient evidence' to prosecute any US soldier over the death of ITN journalist Terry Lloyd in Iraq. On 22 March 2003 Terry Lloyd was injured in crossfire between Iraqi troops and American tanks...
A US military board last week ordered that Ahmed Raziak, a 38-year-old cameraman, be held for at least six more months for ‘imperative reasons of security’, but declined to disclose any specific allegations against him or provide any evidence as to...
Afaq TV, a Palestinian commercial TV station based in Nablus, was closed by Israeli soldiers yesterday for one year on the grounds that it was ‘terrorist’ media. 'We are an independent media and, regardless of what the Israeli military says, we...
A draft has been passed on its first reading by the Iranian parliament which proposes to apply the death penalty to bloggers and website editors who ‘promote corruption, prostitution or apostasy’. According to article 3 of the bill, judges will be...
Abdul Karim al Khaiwani, former editor of now blocked website al-Shora.net, has been sentenced to six years in jail for distributing publications allegedly calling for solidarity with Houthi rebels in the south of the country. Mr al Khaiwani had...
A recent French court decision leaves us no closer to the truth about footage that shook the Middle East, writes Natasha Lehrer A seven-year debate over the authenticity of the footage of the death of Mohammed al Dura in the arms of his father...
The decision to bar Norman Finkelstein from entering the country is a spectacular own goal for Israel, writes Daphna Baram American Jewish academic Norman Finkelstein is a persona non grata in Israel. He found out about it when he attempted a visit...
Recent factional fighting in Beirut saw journalists come under attack, writes Charles Chuman On 7 May 2008, Hezbollah and its allies in the Lebanese opposition began dismantling the authority of the Lebanese government. The army and police force...