Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

On 16 August 2013, journalists covering a Hamas-led protest in support of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood were banned from doing their jobs, and some were beaten, by the Palestinian Authority in the city of Hebron.

Israeli forces attacked a peaceful protest in Bethlehem, that is part of weekly-organised demonstrations denouncing violations, such as the Apartheid Wall and settlement expansion south of Bethlehem.

Jordan-based Al-Arab Al-Yawm’s board has announced the dismissal of fourteen of its journalists and other employees

The Egyptian military’s storming of two Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo has left hundreds of citizens dead and thousands seriously injured.

Mohammed Shireen, the investigative judge assigned by the Ministry of Justice, decided to prohibit the dissemination of any information collected during investigations conducted with the former attorney-general, Talaat Abdullah and others affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Unknown armed men abducted a news crew of the Orient News channel near Aleppo, Syria, also seizing the station’s vehicle and camera equipment.

The office of the Nuba Mountains Observatory for Human Rights was stormed by security forces on 17 July. During the raid, documents were stolen and computers were broken.

Abdulsalam Al-Mesmari, founder of the February 17 coalition and a critic of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya, was assassinated on 26 July 2013, among ongoing politically motivated attacks and murders in the country.