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EGP 10,000 fine for libel levelled against Essam El-Erian

  /  May 27, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Former editor-in-chief of independent newspaper has been sentenced for libel against the Vice Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party

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Report suggests Abu Deif was killed by professional

  /  May 14, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Unofficial medical report indicates the bullet found in journalist’s corpse deforms after launch

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Doma trial postponed

  /  May 5, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  1 Comment

Trial moved to another judicial district, Doma remains in custody

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Alexandria lawyers released

  /  March 31, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Some lawyers refused to respond to prosecutors’ questions during their interrogation

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Fresh out of captivity in Syria, Ukraine journalist plans return

  /  March 18, 2013  /  Politics, Region  /  No Comments

“I have nerves of steel but you cannot cheat your body. It was a stressful situation. I was hungry and cold for five months,” Kochneva said.

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Dostour newspaper owner threatens to end sit-in by force

  /  March 7, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Members of the newspaper have been protesting demanding better wages and contracts

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Press Syndicate condemns Al-Wali attack

  /  March 3, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

The Syndicate says members need to unite at a time when attacks on the press are widespread

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Journalist missing, allegedly kidnapped

  /  February 23, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

The journalist’s fiancee claims he was kidnapped from 10th of Ramadan bus station

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Journalist sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting police officer

  /  January 7, 2013  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Al-Tahrir journalist sentenced in absentia claims police assaulted him first during Mubarak’s trial

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Al-Hosseini Abu Deif dies of injuries

  /  December 12, 2012  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Al-Fajr journalist was shot in the head as he filmed clashes by the presidential palace last week

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Syrian pro-regime journalist assassinated in Damascus

  /  December 4, 2012  /  Politics, Region  /  1 Comment

The killing marked the second of a journalist in Tadamun in less than a fortnight

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Turkish journalist missing for months in Syria freed

  /  November 17, 2012  /  Politics, Region  /  No Comments

Unal said Saturday that he had been detained by Syrian soldiers and held in solitary confinement in an Aleppo prison

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British doctor in court over Syria journalist kidnappings

  /  October 17, 2012  /  Politics, Region  /  No Comments

Shajul Islam, 26, is accused of being part of a jihadist group that held photographers John Cantlie from Britain and Jeroen Oerlemans of the Netherlands at a Syrian camp between July 17 and 26.

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Abu Islam, Abu Youssef and a journalist brought to court

  /  September 30, 2012  /  Egypt, Politics  /  3 Comments

Abu Islam claims to be protecting the Islamic doctrine

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Former Al-Shaab journalists begin hunger strike

  /  September 29, 2012  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Former employees of the old Al-Shaab newspaper are demanding the government uphold an agreement made under Mubarak’s reign

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Mona Eltahawy arrested on camera

  /  September 26, 2012  /  Egypt, Politics  /  No Comments

Eltahawy arrested after defacing controversial advert in the New York subway

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Afghanistan bans Pakistani newspapers for spreading pro-Taliban messages

  /  September 23, 2012  /  Politics  /  No Comments

Pakistani newspapers accused of undermining Afghan government

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The volcano erupts

  /  September 20, 2012  /  Opinion  /  No Comments

The outpouring of rage in Islamic countries isn’t just about a low-budget film insulting the prophet Muhammad. It is the eruption of a volcano that has been simmering for the past eleven years

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Ninth journalist killed in Somalia

  /  September 18, 2012  /  Politics  /  No Comments

Journalists continue to die as government stands by

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The whole truth and nothing but the truth

  /  September 12, 2012  /  Opinion  /  No Comments

On 8 March, I was in London attending a panel discussion on the safety of women journalists. I had been invited there by the International News Safety Institute (INSI) after contributing a chapter to a read the rest…

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