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Alerts | Egypt, Sudan, Yemen

Attacks on journalists in Yemen, Sudan amid street protests

Tawakol Karman, the chairwoman of Women Journalists Without Chains, shouts during an anti-government protest in Sanaa on Saturday. (Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi/Reuters)
New York, January 31, 2011--Journalists in the Middle East are experiencing increased harassment amid rapidly spreading street protests throughout the region, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ is gravely concerned about reports of attacks against journalists not only in Egypt, as CPJ has previously reported, but also in Yemen and Sudan.
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January 31, 2011 1:08 PM ET |
Tags: Ahmed Sir al-Khatam, Ajras al-Huriya, Akhbar Al-Youm, Al-Ahdath, Al-Akhbar, Al-Ikhlas, Al-Jarida, Al-Masdar, Al-Sahafa, Al-Thawri, Ali Ahmad Haj al-Amin, Attacked, Bushra al-Amar, Fatima al-Ghazali, Hamza Balou, Mekhtar al-Rahbi, Mohamed Amer, Mohamed Marzouq, Rashid Abd al-Wahab, Samia al-Aghbary, Sara Taj al-Sir, Tawakul Karman, Women Journalists Without Chains
Blog | Morocco

Morocco pardons journalist to create smokescreen

By Rima Marrouch/CPJ Middle East and North Africa Research Associate
Driss Chahtan holds his daughter while being taken to prison. He was released a day before his wife had their second child. (Abdelwahid Mahir)

On Friday evening, after receiving an unexpected royal pardon, Driss Chahtan, the editor of the independent weekly Al-Michaal, was released from Oukacha Prison in Casablanca. However, his release is one of the few positive developments amid many alarming cases of worsening press conditions in Morocco.

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June 16, 2010 10:15 AM ET |
Tags: Akhbar Al-Youm, Ali Amar, Driss Chahtan, Le Journal, Taoufik Bouachrine
Alerts | Morocco

Moroccan editor given politicized prison sentence

New York, June 15, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Moroccan judiciary today to overturn a prison sentence given Friday to Taoufik Bouachrine, editor of the independent daily Akhbar al-Youm, on politicized criminal charges.

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June 15, 2010 6:00 PM ET |
Tags: Akhbar Al-Youm, Taoufik Bouachrine
Blog | Morocco

CPJ trip to Morocco reveals gap between rhetoric and reality

By Kamel Labidi/CPJ Middle East Representative
At the Casablanca Appeals Court, left to right: Driss Chahtan's lawyer, Said Ben Hommani; Al-Mishaa's Mustapha Rayhan; Kamel Labidi; Al-Mishaal's Hassan Ain al-Hayat; Chahtan's wife, Sihem, and daughter, Saberina. (CPJ)

Two weeks ago, Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator, and I were in Morocco to hold meetings with government officials as well as journalists. In some ways the trip was a success, but in other ways it left much to be desired from a country that claims to be “at the forefront of liberalization in the region,” to borrow language used by Morocco’s Communication Minister Khalid Naciri in his meeting with CPJ on February 19.
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March 3, 2010 5:33 PM ET |
Tags: Akhbar Al-Youm, Censored, Driss Chahtan, Le Journal Hebdomadaire

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