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Qatar, a swampy ground to be a journalist, even during the World Cup
The 2022 FIFA World Cup brought Qatar journalists from all over the world, despite limitations to press freedom, such as…
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Saudi authorities must release women’s rights activist Salma al-Shehab
We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the international community to press Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release women’s…
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Egypt’s jailed activist Alaa Abdelfatah brings up second nationality for the first time as patience runs dry
He has British citizenship through his mother, Laila Soueif, a mathematics professor at Cairo University who was born in London while her…
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Egypt Sentences Tiktok Bloggers to Years in Prison
As part of a wave of arrests against women content creators in Egypt, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Haneen Hossam,…
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Petition to #SavePalestinianVoices: Tech Companies Must Stop Silencing Palestinian Content
We demand Facebook and Twitter to immediately stop censoring Palestinian content, reinstate affected posts and accounts, and provide a clear and public explanation for the reasons why the content was removed.