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Young Protesters Languish in Jail under Egypt’s Military Counter-Revolution

By Nelly Bassily | ( openDemocracy) | - - Yara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women's prison outside Cairo. She says, "I do not feel any…

Syrian Refugees Face Hunger Amidst Humanitarian Funding Crisis

By Zhai Yun Tan | (Inter Press Service) | - - WASHINGTON (IPS) - The United Nations’ food aid organisation, the World Food Programme (WFP), said on Jul. 1 that up to…

Egypt’s Draconian new anti-Terrorism Law threatens freedom of speech, Democracy

Euronews | (Video Report) | - - "Egypt launched airstrikes on Islamist militant targets in the Sinai peninsula killing 23 fighters, the offensive comes a day after deadly clashes in the region."…

Journalists Pay the Price in Egypt’s Crackdown on Dissent

By Kitty Stapp | - - NEW YORK (IPS) - The Egyptian government is holding a record number of journalists in jail, a press freedom group said Thursday, despite promises to improve…

PM Netanyahu wants a Free Press, just not in Israel

By Ari Heistein | (Informed Comment) | - - Continuing his assault on transparency and independent voices in the media, Prime Minister Netanyahu denied investigative journalist Raviv Drucker’s Freedom of Information Law…

Expelled for Life: A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land

By Jen Marlowe | (Tomdispatch.com) Nasser Nawaj’ah held Laith’s hand as, beside me, they walked down the dirt and pebble path of Old Susya. Nasser is 33 years old, his son six.…

Egypt: Year of Abuses Under al-Sisi — President Gets Western Support While Erasing Human Rights Gains

Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has presided over the flagrant abuse of human rights since taking office a year ago pledging to restore…

On eve of Turkish Election, Leftist Women Turn backs on Pres. Erdogan in Twitter Campaign

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In Turkey, left of center and Kurdish women took to Twitter on Wednesday to post pictures of themselves turning their backs to President…

“Nationalism and terrorism are constructed things to divide us”: Macedonian elections and a Balkan “War on Terror”

By Frances Trix | (Informed Comment) | - Now it appears, thanks to EU mediation, there will be new national elections in Macedonia next April 2016. In one sense it is quite…

Egypt: Executing Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi for “Terrorism” will Fuel… Terrorism

By Ebrahim Deen | (Informed Comment) | -- ‘In contemporary Egypt, due process is often not granted, evidence is often not considered, and impartiality and independence are often not maintained.’ The…

TPP and Fast Track Harm Web Creativity and Users’ Rights: Tech Companies to Congress

By Maira Sutton | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - In a In a joint letter to Congress released this week, more than 250 technology companies and user rights organizations say that the…

Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age

by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary — Q & A with REBECCA STEIN: Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age (Stanford University Press, April 2015), by scholars Adi Kunstman and…

Syrian Opposition, Caught between Assad & Extremists, Despair at World’s Neglect

By Haroro J. Ingram with L. T. Anthony | (The Conversation) | - Syrian civilians are trapped in the middle of a holocaust: prizes in a ruthless contest for popular support and…

Iranian Police Arrest Leading Human Rights Activist Again

By Golnaz Esfandiari | (RFE/RL) | - Narges Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) co-founded by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, was arrested on…

Don’t Be Fooled by Saudi’s Reshuffle

By Adam Coogle | (Human Rights Watch) | - King Salman’s promotion of his nephew Mohammed bin Nayef to the position of crown prince and heir apparent marks a change of direction…

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Azerbaijan among Top 10 Worst Censors: Media Watchdog

By Valentina Ieri | - UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) - While technology has given millions greater freedom to express themselves, in the world's 10 most censored countries, this basic right exists only on…

Israeli Forces Target Journalists in West Bank

By Mel Frykberg | - KAFR QADDOUM, West Bank (IPS) - It is becoming increasingly risky to cover clashes and protests between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters in the West Bank…

Palestine: 2014 sees Record number of Journalists Targeted

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) said Sunday that 2014 saw 465 violations of media freedoms in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.…

Israel Top Court denies justice to Family of Slain Activist Rachel Corrie

By Sarah Lazare | (Commondreams.org) The family of Rachel Corrie—the 23-year-old U.S. activist crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while nonviolently protesting a home demolition in Palestine 12 years ago—was…

“Drastic Decline” Seen in World Press Freedom

By Leila Lemghalef UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - A leading advocacy group warns of a “worldwide deterioration in freedom of information” last year.Out of the 180 countries being surveyed, two-thirds have slipped in…