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Reporters without Borders (RSF) has issued a very biased statement, to say the least, in which it arrogantly put itself in the place of the Moroccan justice and castigated a women complaining of sexual assault by journalist Omar Radi, who is also facing espionage charges. In an appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence […]
Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni was handed Tuesday a two year- prison sentence on appeal as crackdown on dissent intensifies after months of anti-government demonstrations in Algeria. Drareni, 40, is the director of the Casbah Tribune, the correspondent of the French TV5 Monde channel and Reporters without Borders in Algeria. Drareni, who has been held in […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Algerian authorities to end the harassment and prosecution of journalists in a bid to gag the media and throttle freedom of the press. In a statement issued Friday, RSF says the crackdown on independent journalists and bloggers has intensified despite the coronavirus epidemic, noting that four journalists […]
The advent of the coronavirus did not prevent Algerian authorities from continuing their clampdown on the free press and human rights activists. After banning Hirak movement marches, the newly recycled civilian leadership whose strings are pulled by the same old military junta arrested well-known Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni who has widely reported on Algeria’s protest […]
Reporters without Borders (RSF) accused Tunisian authorities of harassing journalists covering the anti-austerity protests that have been simmering across Tunisia. In a statement, RSF condemned the Tunisian police for brief detention and interrogation of one reporter and the confisca-tion of another’s phone. Mathieu Galtier, a French reporter for the Paris-based daily Libération, received an unexpected […]
Over 20 Algerian media organizations expressed their rejection of the crackdown of Algerian authorities on free media after critical news portal TSA was shutdown by the state-owned internet operator. The media organizations, including websites and news portals, denounced the stifling of the independent press as a violation of the freedom of speech. They rejected the […]
It seems that Algerian news websites “Tout sur l’Algérie” (TSA) have been clearly shut down by the authorities. Both the Arabic and French online editions of TSA are inaccessible via Algérie Télécom, the country’s state-owned traditional Internet Service Provider, and via Mobilis, the state-owned mobile Internet provider, since 5 October. Algérie Télécom, the service provider, […]
Morocco rejected the accusations by Reporters without Borders (RSF) on press freedom in the Rif region, saying that allegations concerning obstacles to reporters are “biased, unfounded and lacking in credibility and proof.” This came in a statement by the Culture and Communication Ministry in charge of accrediting national and international reporters in the country after […]
International media watchdogs criticized Algeria’s repressive measures to intimidate journalists and demanded the immediate release of journalist and fixer Saïd Chitour who has been held in pretrial detention on allegations of spying for over a month. Reporters without Borders (RSF) released a statement denouncing as “excessive” the pretrial detention of Chitour, and expressing concern over […]
Reporters Without Borders has denounced the suffocating lack of press freedom in Algerian media since the re-election of president Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a 4th term. The latest death in detention of British-Algerian journalist Mohamed Tamalt comes to blacken the picture of the alarming situation in the country because it is the first time that an […]