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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Free speech in Tunisia: New year, same fears
Free speech in Tunisia will continue to remain in jeopardy as a new year kicks off. During the next few months, the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) is scheduled to adopt Tunisia’s new constitution. Last December, the NCA published a second...
Social media grows across the Gulf
The Gulf monarchies have, in recent years, invested considerable resources and efforts in finding ways to censor interactions between their citizens, and between their citizens and other parties. As such, each new communications technology that has...
What future for free speech in the new Egypt?
Egypt closed 2012 with a new constitution and opened this year with growing discontent with President Mohamed Morsi. Ashraf Khalil reflects on a tumultuous year, and looks ahead to an uncertain future
Jailed and stabbed for the crime of being an atheist in the New Egypt
A 27 year-old Egyptian blogger has been released on bail pending an appeal of his 12 December conviction for blasphemy and contempt of religion. He was sentenced to three years in jail. A Coptic Christian turned atheist, Alber Saber was arrested at...
Journalist killed in anti-Morsi protest
An Egyptian journalist covering Wednesday's clashes outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis between Islamist supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi has been declared clinically dead after sustaining gunshot wounds to the head....
Bahrain: Verdict in trial for 13 activists postponed
Bahrain's Court of Cassation today postponed issuing a verdict in the appeal of 13 opposition activists, including well-known human rights activist and Bahrain Center for Human Rights founder Abdulhadi Alkhawaja. The verdict will now be issued on 7...
INDEX INTERVIEW: “Diplomats should be blogging”
Annette Fisher interviews Frances Guy, Senior Adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and former British Ambassador to Lebanon and Yemen on the dilemmas of public service and free speech
Why is Kim Kardashian going to Bahrain?
Kim Kardashian flew into Bahrain's capital today to launch the country’s first Millions of Milkshakes shop --- but "sources" close to the reality TV star told TMZ that her trip to Kuwait and Bahrain is about more than promoting frozen drinks....
Gaza: When is a journalist not a journalist?
OPINION “Maybe we have a discussion about who is a journalist,” said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev, in a much-publicised interview with Al Jazeera on Monday during which he was grilled about Israeli attacks on media centres in Gaza City....