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  • Report: Journalists Held Arbitrarily in Saudi Crackdown

    Report: Journalists Held Arbitrarily in Saudi Crackdown

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of around 15 Saudi journalists and citizen-journalists who have gone “missing” in a wave of arrests that began last September. They include Saleh Al-Shehi, a journalist who was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison on a charge of ..

  • The Killing of Islamist Protesters: State Censorship or Self-Censorship?

    The Killing of Islamist Protesters: State Censorship or Self-Censorship?

    The recent violence at the Republican Guards headquarters has left the country reeling, media institutions included. As the latest development in a lengthy run of unprecedented events, tensions surrounding the incident — in which over fifty members of the Muslim Brotherhood were killed by army g..

  • Trials and Tribulations of Turkish News Media

    Trials and Tribulations of Turkish News Media

    On 3 June, while mass protests against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government were raging in several cities around Turkey, something equally important happened in Istanbul. Close to three thousand people gathered in front of the offices of Dogus Media Group, one of the five largest m..