At least nine Lebanese journalists have been attacked whilst covering ongoing clashes in Syria over the last month in four separate incidents. On 10 June, Ghadi Francis from Beirut-based TV station Al-Jadeed was attacked by the bodyguard of a...
A UN human rights expert has slammed the government of Israel, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza for unduly limiting free speech. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, special rapporteur on free expression...
There are no prisoners of conscience in Bahrain --- at least that's what the government would like you to think. A year ago today, eight opposition activists were given life sentences for their involvement in the country's anti-government...
Hundreds of thousands of activists returned to Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday night to protest supplementary constitutional amendments issued by the ruling military council in recent days. The amendments grant the military sweeping legislative and...
The Syrian regime has gone to great lengths to silence the satirical commentary of Ali Ferzat
Libya's Supreme Court yesterday threw out a new law criminalising the glorification of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi or his supporters. The law was deemed to be "unconstitutional", after a group of Libyan lawyers argued against the law for...
This is a propaganda war, a diplomat in Damascus told the BBC's Paul Danahar, "you can't take anyone at face value now". The war of words over the Syrian revolution has been brutal, and for some, fatal. Revolutionaries and Assadists have tried...
A Bahraini court today acquitted nine of the 20 medics sentenced last year for treating anti-government protesters and reduced the sentences of nine others. Last year's sentences, handed down on 20 September, ranged from five to 15 years and...
On 12 June, the Tunisian Ministry of Culture decided to temporarily close Palais El-Abdelia, where the controversial Pritemps des Arts fair’s closing ceremony took place last Sunday. On the night of 10 June, ultra-conservative Islamists attacked...
Journalist and activist Ramzi Bettaieb ended a 15-day hunger strike yesterday. Three other activists and bloggers, Azyz Amami, Houcem Hajlaoui and Emine M’tiraoui, who went on hunger strike in solidarity with Bettaieb have also ended their action....