Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)

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Link to: Israeli forces detain six Palestinian journalists in the West Bank

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.

Syrian human rights activists Hussein Gharir Mazen Darwish and Hani al-Zitani

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.

Journalist and womens' rights activist Nahed Abu Taima, MADA

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.

Protesters raise their fists with a blue ribbon during the "Standing in Silent Action" event in support of the Hong Kong Journalist Association (HKJA) at Tamar Park in Hong Kong, 2 March 2014, REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

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.

Link to: Israel forces Palestinian TV station to stop broadcasting

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

A woman picks vegetables near a residential compound under construction in Zhejiang province, China, 17 January 2014, REUTERS/William Hong

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.

Link to: Israeli forces detain two journalists and assault another

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.

Romania’s Parliament, led by Prime Minister Victor Ponta (left), voted to recriminalise insult and libel, a move that President Traian Basescu (right) promised to veto., http://www.victorponta.ro/

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.