Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

On 24 August 2014, militias affiliated with the Fajr Libya coalition stormed the headquarters of Alassema TV in Tripoli, damaged its property, and abducted its employees.

IFEX members and partners from around the world urge the UN to include access to information in the Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

Egyptian security forces arrested Mamdouh El-Wali on 3 August 2014 allegedly because he believes that the ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi on 30 June 2013 was a coup.

Student Mahmoud Mohammed’s detention in an Egyptian prison has been renewed for 45 days without charge after having been arrested in January for participating in protests commemorating the third anniversary of the 25 January revolution.

Marzieh Rasouli’s arrest and subsequent sentencing follows the detention in recent months of a number of other Iranian journalists as part of the Islamic republic’s crackdown on independent media.

Hamid Shihab, a 30-year-old driver for the Gaza-based press agency Media 24, was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on the night of 9 July 2014.

Abdel Basset Turjuman was attacked on 3 July 2014 by Mahmoud Abu Deraa, a member of the Resistance Brigades affiliated with Hezbollah, for allowing articles critical of Hezbollah to be published on his news site.

Fawzan Al-Harbi, activist and co-founder of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association(ACPRA), received a seven-year jail sentence and travel ban on 25 June 2014.