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AFGHANISTAN: 1 Ali Mohaqqiq Nasab, Haqooq-i-Zan (Women’s Rights) Imprisoned: October 1, 2005 The attorney general ordered editor Nasab’s arrest on blasphemy charges after the religious adviser to President Hamid Karzai, Mohaiuddin Baluch, filed a complaint about his magazine. “I took the two magazines and spoke to the Supreme Court chief, who wrote to the attorney…

Preface By Paul E.Steiger Introduction By Ann Cooper AFRICA ANALYSIS Lessons in Democracy and the Press By Julia CrawfordVersion française  AMERICAS ANALYSIS All the News That Can’t Be Printed By Carlos Lauría  Versión en español ASIA ANALYSIS As Radio Grows More Powerful, Challenges EmergeBy Abi Wright EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA ANALYSIS: Free Expression Takes a…

AFGHANISTAN: 1 Ali Mohaqqiq Nasab, Haqooq-i-Zan (Women’s Rights) Imprisoned: October 1, 2005 The attorney general ordered editor Nasab’s arrest on blasphemy charges after the religious adviser to President Hamid Karzai, Mohaiuddin Baluch, filed a complaint about his magazine. “I took the two magazines and spoke to the Supreme Court chief, who wrote to the attorney…

New York, January 18, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a recent series of criminal cases against the Moroccan press, including criminal prosecutions of newspaper editors and the imposition of excessive fines on independent publications. Three journalists face possible imprisonment as a direct result of news or opinions published in their weeklies. Abdelaziz…

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

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

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

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

New York, April 12, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a Moroccan court’s decision today banning independent journalist and former newspaper owner Ali Lmrabet from practicing journalism for 10 years. The sentence comes just 10 days before Lmrabet was expected to receive a license to publish a new satirical weekly, Demain Libere. Lmrabet, who is…

PREFACE By Tom Brokaw  INTRODUCTION By Ann Cooper  AFRICA ANALYSIS By Julia Crawford  AMERICAS ANALYSIS By Carlos Lauría ASIA ANALYSIS By Abi Wright EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA ANALYSIS By Alex Lupis  MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA ANALYSIS By Joel Campagna AFRICA  Burundi | Cameroon | Central African Republic | Democratic Republic of Congo | Equatorial Guinea | Eritrea | Ethiopia | Gabon | Gambia | Ivory Coast | Kenya | Liberia  | Mozambique | Nigeria | Rwanda | Senegal | Sierra Leone | Somalia | South Africa | Togo | Zimbabwe  AMERICAS  Argentina | Brazil | Chile…