Middle East & North Africa

  

A step in the wrong direction

A step in the wrong direction By Hani Sabra Assahifa al-Ousbouiya weekly, Morocco May 5 , 2005

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Time for Real Media Reform in Arab World

Time for Real Media Reform in Arab World By Joel Campagna Al-Hayat newspaper, London May 3, 2005

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Has the President Changed his Mind?

Has the President Changed his Mind? By Joel Campagna Al-Ayyam newspaper, Yemen March 10, 2005

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Time for Real Media Reform in Arab World

Time for Real Media Reform in Arab World By Joel Campagna Al-Hayat newspaper, London March 3, 2005

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Baghdad shooting highlights checkpoint shortcomings

New York, May 2, 2005—A March 4 shooting in Baghdad in which U.S. forces killed Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari and wounded Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena and agent Andrea Carpani might have been avoided if the military had used basic warning measures such as signs and speed bumps to alert civilians to the presence of…

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Marked for Death

The Five Most Murderous Countries for Journalists

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IRAQ

MAY 2005 Posted October 18, 2005 Samir Mohammed Noor, Reuters IMPRISONED Reuters reported that its freelance television cameraman Noor was arrested by Iraqi troops at his home in the northern town of Tal Afar in May 2005 and was ordered detained indefinitely by the CRRB, which oversees detentions in Iraq.

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Independent Tunisian Journalists Still Face Harsh Attacks

Independent Tunisian Journalists Still Face Harsh Attacks By Joel Campagna Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, London

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CPJ Statment on Iraq Shooting

New York, April 26, 2005–The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement today in response to press reports that a U.S.-led inquiry has cleared U.S. troops of wrongdoing in a March 4 shooting in which Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari was killed and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena wounded. Italian officials have disputed the findings,…

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American photographer detained

New York, April 27, 2005— Sudanese security forces in Darfur, Sudan, detained an American freelance photographer yesterday as he photographed a refugee camp. Hartford-based Brad Clift is under house arrest at a United States Agency for International Development office building after being detained in Nyala in the Darfur region of Sudan, the daily Hartford Courant…

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