"Recruit Press" in Muslim/Arab countries (1 Viewer)

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These articles prove that there is no freedom of speech in these kind of countries and in these kind of regimes.

Oct. 17, 2006 23:16 | Updated Oct. 18, 2006 9:16
Pro-Israeli editor beaten in Bangladesh
By MICHAEL FREUND

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of Bangladesh's 'Weekly Blitz' newspaper (middle, in white), listens as a policeman talks to two officials who took part in the attack.
Photo: Courtesy

A Muslim journalist facing charges of sedition for advocating ties with Israel was recently attacked and beaten by a crowd in Bangladesh that allegedly included leading officials of the country's ruling party, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the Weekly Blitz newspaper, an English-language publication based in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, was working in his office on October 5 when nearly 40 people stormed the premises. Full article inside

EGYPT: Editor, reporter for weekly are sentenced to jail

New York, June 26, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores today’s decision by an Egyptian court to sentence two journalists to a year in prison for publishing a report critical of President Hosni Mubarak, his family, and other top officials. Full article inside

Oct. 18, 2006 23:45 | Updated Oct. 19, 2006 12:52
Sadat's nephew on trial for saying assassination was conspiracy
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

The nephew of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, who is on trial for claiming that military commanders were behind his uncle's 1981 assassination, accused the ruling party on Wednesday of prosecuting him because of his vocal opposition to the government.

Talaat Sadat, a 52-year-old lawmaker, is on trial before a military court on charges of "spreading false rumors and insulting the armed forces." Sadat - whose parliamentary immunity was quickly stripped soon after he made the comments, opening the door for the trial - has pleaded innocent to the charges, which hold a maximum sentence of three years in prison. Full article inside

Libyan online reporter jailed

Abd al-Raziq al-Mansuri
p2p news / p2pnet: On the heels of news that Egypt has arrested a blogger for publishing anti-government articles, a Libyan online reporter is in jail for 18 months for the same thing, says his family Full article inside

 

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Another example of lack of freedom of speech.

Turkish-Armenian editor shot dead in Istanbul
By Paul de Bendern and Thomas Grove, Reuters
Published: Friday, January 19, 2007

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A high-profile Turkish-Armenian editor, convicted of insulting Turkey's identity, was shot dead outside his newspaper office in Istanbul on Friday.

Hrant Dink, a frequent target of nationalist anger for his comments on the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One, was shot as he left his weekly Agos around 1300 GMT in central Istanbul.

"A bullet has been fired at democracy and freedom of expression. I condemn the traitorous hands behind this disgraceful murder," Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said. Full article inside

 

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Egyptian blogger jailed for insulting Islam

Abdel Karim Suleiman, 22-year-old former law student who has been in custody since November, is first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for his Internet writings. Alexandria court sentenced him to four years in jail. An Alexandria court convicted an Egyptian blogger on Thursday for insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and sentenced him to four years in jail over his writings on the Internet. Abdel Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old former law student who has been in custody since November, was the first blogger to stand trial in Egypt for his Internet writings. He was convicted in connection with eight articles he wrote since 2004. Rights groups and opposition bloggers have watched Suleiman's case closely, and said they feared a conviction could set a legal precedent limiting Internet freedom in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country. The London-based rights group Amnesty International said in a statement: "This is yet another slap in the face of freedom of expression in Egypt." The group considers Suleiman to be a prisoner of conscience, jailed solely for peacefully expressing his opinion, the statement added. The Paris-based press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders said the sentence was "a disgrace" and the United Nations should respond by disqualifying Egypt from hosting an Internet Governance Forum in 2009.

"It is time the international community took a stand on Egypt's repeated violations of press freedom and the rights of Internet users," a statement added. Full article inside