Articles by Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)
Israeli forces detain six Palestinian journalists in the West Bank
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.
Free key rights defenders held in violation of international standards in Syria
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 subjected to attacks by both Israeli and Palestinian forces
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.
Chief Executive of Hong Kong urged to protect freedom of expression
After a series of increasingly violent events, IFEX members and supporters call on Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying to take clear and deliberate steps to defend press freedom.
Israel forces Palestinian TV station to stop broadcasting
A local station in the city of Tulkarem, Sheraa TV, was forced to stop broadcasting after receiving numerous threats by the Israeli authorities
Transparency, independent media are vital for global development plan
195 civil society organisations from around the world have called on the UN to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.
Israeli forces detain two journalists and assault another
On 26 January 2014, two journalists were detained by Israeli forces during their coverage of clashes that erupted between Palestinian citizens and the forces in an area near the city of Bethlehem.
In an attack on free expression, libel may be recriminalised in Romania
IFEX members are calling on the president of Romania to veto proposed changes to the penal code passed by Parliament that would recriminalise insult and libel.