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Joel Campagna Published in The Huffington Post January 11, 2008 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-campagna/arab-bloggers-under-press_b_81096.html Much of the Arab blogosphere is abuzz this week. Not about President Bush’s current Mideast tour which began in Israel on Wednesday, but about a thirty-two year old IT executive-turned-blogger currently in prison in Saudi Arabia.

New York, January 7, 2008—Police arrested freelance journalist Idle Moallim on Sunday in the northeastern city of Bossasso in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, local journalists told CPJ. Police arrested Moallim for “misreporting” a story on human trafficking in Bossasso and are holding him at Bossasso central prison, according to local journalists. Moallim is a…

Glenn Kessler The Washington Post December 18, 2007 Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.com, Newsweek Interactive Company and The Washington Post The number of journalists killed worldwide spiked to the highest number in more than a decade, with nearly half killed in Iraq, according to an analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based…

Joel Simon Published in The Huffington Post December 18, 2007 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-simon/the-year-of-reporting-dan_b_77208.html Do you know the names Salih Said Aldin, Khalid W. Hassan, or Namir Noor-Eldeen? All three were reporters for international media outlets who were killed in Iraq in the last year.

Journalist Deaths Hit Decade Peak Half in Iraq; record number in Somalia

Saadia Qamar The Nation (Pakistan) December 11, 2007 A new analysis by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has found that one in six journalists imprisoned around the world are being held without charges.

New York, December 10, 2007—The Committee Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that the criminal hearing for an Associated Press photographer accused of collaborating with Iraqi insurgents is being held in secret. On Sunday, an Iraqi court convened the first hearing in the case of AP photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by the U.S.…

  New York, December 7, 2007—Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, held by the U.S. military without charge for nearly 20 months, is scheduled to face unspecified charges in an Iraqi court on Sunday. Hussein is among a number of journalists who have been held by the U.S. military in Iraq for prolonged periods.  

CPJ: One in 6 jailed journalists held without charge Census shows an overall decline; China remains the leading jailer

Detailed accounts of each imprisoned journalist.