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15 May 2009
Armed security forces used tear gas and shot at the offices of the Aden-based Arabic daily al-Ayyam in Yemen on Wednesday.
12 May 2009
US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was released from jail in Iran on
Monday following international and domestic protests at her detention.
11 May 2009
A blockade by security forces of the offices of a Yemeni newspaper,
aiming to prevent distribution of copies of the paper, has entered its
second week.
03 May 2009
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
01 May 2009
As workers around the world unite on May Day, two of Iran's most prominent trade unionists languish in prison.
27 April 2009
Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was jailed for eight
years for spying earlier this month, has pledged to stay on hunger
strike until she is released.
23 April 2009
Nechirvan Barzani promised to make the security forces accountable for cases of arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances and other ill-treatment.
21 April 2009
Iran has been urged to release the Iranian-American journalist Roxana
Saberi, who was sentenced to eight years in jail after being
convicted as a spy.
14 April 2009
The authorities in Bahrain released all 178 political prisoners on Sunday after they were pardoned by the King of Bahrain.
07 April 2009
At least 20 people are still held in detention in Egypt after peaceful protests on Monday.
23 March 2009
At least 10 people were arrested this month after demonstrations against
the arrest by security forces of Shi’a visitors to the tomb of the
Prophet Muhammad in
23 March 2009
Experts of the Human Rights Council have concluded that the Egyptian
authorities have detained blogger Karim Amer arbitrarily for his online
criticisms and for exerc
18 March 2009
Students are being detained for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, in what may be an attempt to stifle debate and dissent b
17 March 2009
Syrian writer Habib Saleh has been sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing the country's government in a series of articles published on the internet.
06 March 2009
Lawyer and former prisoner of conscience Mohamed Abbou has been denied permission to leave Tunisia for the seventh time since his release from prison in July 2007.
27 February 2009
Mona Said Thabet, her husband Yasser Naguib Mahran and their three
children have been the targets of a campaign of harassment and
intimidation.
27 February 2009
Kurdish student Hana Abdi was released from prison on Thursday after spending nearly 16 months in detention.
09 February 2009
Ayatollah Khomeini promised that all Iranians would be free. However,
the past 30 years have been characterised by persistent human rights
violations.
05 February 2009
Those sentenced were accused of leading unrest against unemployment and high living
costs in the phosphate-rich Gafsa region of south-east Tunisia earlier
in 2008.
02 February 2009
Four Egyptian newspaper editors convicted of publishing offences under
a controversial press law have had their one-year prison sentences
overturned by a Cairo Appea
