Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)

Palestinian security services assaulted a large group of journalists who were covering a sit-in in Ramallah organised by female Hamas activists against the political detention of Hamas members.

MADA condemns the raid by Israeli forces on the studio where the “Good Morning Jerusalem” program was being filmed. Israeli forces claim the program is not licensed and is inciting dissent against the Israeli occupation.

Israeli soldiers raid publishing company to keep it from distributing Gaza newspapers in West Bank.

Israeli authorities have yet again threatened Wattan TV with closure unless it halts its broadcasting.

As a result of an article she wrote on Hamas soldiers and Gaza’s mosques for the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper on 3 April 2014, Palestinian journalist Orouba Othman now faces legal consequences.

Those detained were Dubai TV correspondent Mohamed Assayed, Associated Press cameraman Mohamed Hassan and producer Rami Abdu, French Agency photographer Mousa Alshaer, Alquds Dot Com photographer Abd-Alrahman Younis, and an American photographer who is yet to be identified.

The government of Syria should immediately and unconditionally release the arbitrarily detained human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghareer, 61 human rights organizations said on 17 March 2014.

Palestinian women journalists have continuously suffered over the past years of Israeli occupation while doing their jobs. On International Womens Day, the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms published a statement calling for the end of violence against women.