JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli court has ordered the conditional release of detained Palestinian journalist Lama Ghosheh. In a statement, Ghosheh’s lawyer Nasser Odeh said that the Israeli District Court released the Palestinian journalist on condition that she does not write on social media and remain under house arrest until her cou...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has demanded global streaming platform Netflix remove content deemed offensive to “Islamic and social values and principles.” In a statement, the General Commission for Audiovisual Media said the content “violated media regulations in the GCC and Islamic and social principles and values.” It s...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s media watchdog slapped a ban on Saturday on live broadcasts of speeches by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, accusing him of hurling “baseless” allegations and threats against state institutions and government officials. The action came hours after Khan’s fiery speech at a prote...
AMMAN (AA) – A number of Jordanian journalists held a vigil in commemoration of the 100th day since Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The protest took place in front of the office of the Al-Jazeera news network in central Amman on […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a news channel executive facing sedition charges. Ammad Yousaf, head of news for local broadcaster ARY News, was arrested in the southern port city of Karachi a day earlier. The charges he faced were in connection with comments made by Shahbaz Gill, an […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) said Monday it is troubled by a new police directive aimed at gagging journalists. In a statement, the SJS said it is “concerned about the new instructions issued by Somali police spokesman Major Abdifatah Adan Hassan threatening legal action against any reporter that reports any...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – (AFP): US President Joe Biden has said that he confronted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over attacks on dissidents during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Prince Mohammed bin Salman drew global outrage for the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate, an operation US i...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s president on Thursday authorized the country’s attorney general to block foreign media from countries that do the same to Russian outlets. Amid international pushback over the ongoing war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has signed a new law that gives the attorney general power to order outlets off the air i...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – A labor court in Germany’s Bonn has ruled against Deutsche Welle (DW) on the dismissal of Palestinian journalist Maram Salim over ‘anti Semitism’ allegations. The Bonn Labor Court on July 6 ruled that her termination of employment at Deutsche Welle was invalid and unlawful as her Facebook posts w...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The findings of a US investigation into the killing of trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh have left her family in a state of abject disappointment. The family said that the findings of the US forensic examination only reiterate the Israeli narrative on the killing of the veteran Palestinian reporter. Ab...
