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MADA: PA coerces detained journalists to reveal their emails

[ PIC 07/09/2013 – 11:14 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) accused the PA forces of forcing detained journalists to reveal their emails and social profiles passwords during investigation. MADA monitored during the past 20 months attacks on journalists for expressing their opinion on Facebook, and some journalists […]

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Israeli TV broadcasts operetta that hails Egyptian military coup

Middle East Monitor | Sept 2, 2013 Israeli mass media broadcast on Monday morning the operetta “Blessed are the Hands” to hail the Egyptian military forces that carried out the coup in Egypt last month.   Israel’s Channel 2 TV broadcast the operetta after Egyptian military bulldozers razed residential houses in the Egyptian Rafah in […]

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Social Activist Kidnapped By The Army At Erez Terminal

 Tuesday August 27, 2013 10:12 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday morning [August 27, 2013], a Palestinian social activist, head of the Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation (PYALARA) after heading to the Erez Israeli terminal in an attempt to obtain a permit to head to the […]

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Family of kidnapped Palestinian journalist appeals for help | @Pressfreedom @RSF_RWB

Ma’an News Agency | Aug 25, 2013   JENIN (Ma’an) — The family of a Palestinian journalist who was kidnapped 16 months ago in the Philippines on Friday appealed to rights organizations to do more for his release. Baker Atyani, Al-Arabiya’s TV bureau chief for Southeast Asia, was kidnapped in June 2012 by the Abu […]

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Israeli PR Head issued warnings over racist, offensive Facebook postings

 Monday August 19, 2013 00:28 by Celine Hagbard – IMEMC News Danny Seaman, who recently became the head of Israel’s ‘Internet Hasbara (Hebrew for Propaganda)’ branch of the government, has been issued a warning by the Netanyahu administration for a series of racist and offensive postings against Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims and Japanese people on his […]

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@BBC to censor violinist Nigel Kennedy’s statement about Israeli apartheid from TV broadcast (Updated)

Mondoweiss | Tom Suarez | August 16, 2013   Nigel Kennedy  (photo: Chris Christodoulou/BBC) The BBC has confirmed that it will censor a statement made by violinist Nigel Kennedy from its television broadcast of his performance with the Palestine Strings at a prestigious music festival last week. In his statement at the Proms, Mr. Kennedy […]

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Activists: Israeli forces assault journalist at Bethlehem protest

Maan News Agency | Aug 16, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces assaulted a journalist on Friday at a protest in al-Masara, a local popular committee said. Soldiers brutally beat Abed al-Rahman Younis Ibedat, a reporter for the news site Al-Quds, and briefly detained him, committee coordinator Hassan Barjeya told Ma’an. Israeli forces fired tear […]

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Media Forum condemns the killing of 7 journalists in Egypt

[ PIC 16/08/2013 – 11:23 AM ] Muhammad Zaki, Aljazeera cameraman who was wounded during coverage of Rabia al-Adaweyya events GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Media Forum has condemned the killing of seven journalists during the suppression of peaceful sit-ins in support of the Egyptian elected President Mohamed Morsi. The forum stated that seven Journalists were […]

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Daily zionist pogrom update: Israeli occupation forces arrest 5 citizens including journalist in WB

[ PIC 14/08/2013 – 06:28 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Tadhamun Foundation for Human Rights said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Tuesday a Palestinian journalist from the city of Ramallah. The researcher at the foundation Ahmed Betawi said that a large military force stormed the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, and […]

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Israeli forces arrest journalist from Budrus village | cc @Pressfreedom @RSF_RWB

Maan News Agency | Aug 13, 2013   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian journalist in the village of Budrus early Tuesday, family members said. Soldiers detained Mohammad Awad after raiding his home and breaking down the door, his brother said. He was taken to an unknown location. An Israeli military spokesperson could […]

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Israel set to exile 14 prisoners to Gaza, release 12 others in PR ‘Goodwill’ stunt

Monday August 12, 2013 04:11 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News In a move labeled by Israeli government officials as a ‘goodwill’ gesture, but questioned by the families of the over 4,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel as a public relations stunt, just 12 prisoners will be released on Tuesday, with an additional 14 to be […]

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Palestinian government in Gaza criticises Al-Arabia TV for defamation campaign

Al Ray Agencies – Aug 4, 2013 Gaza, Alray – The Palestinian government in Gaza has denounced a defamation campaign waged by Al-Arabia satellite TV against the Palestinians and their resistance. Top Palestinian official criticized the “suspicious role that Al-Arabia plays as it broadcasts fabricated reports blaming Palestinians for the current unrest in Egypt.” He […]

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The “Online Checkpoint” attacks again: Al-Aqsa TV channel Facebook page removed

[ PIC 03/08/2013 – 11:38 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Facebook administration has removed al-Aqsa TV channel page, although its Facebook fan page was available and had grown by 116,000 fans. Al-Aqsa TV channel condemned this arbitrary measure that came without any justification or real explanation, stressing that it will not succeed to undermine its voice. […]

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Media Forum condemns PA arrest of Journalist covering a sit-in

[ PIC 02/08/2013 – 01:15 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Media Forum strongly condemned the PA Intelligence Services for the arrest of the journalist Musab al-Ibrahim Said while covering a sit-in of prisoners’ families in Ramallah. PA forces arrested on Thursday the journalist Said, who works with a local news agency, while covering a […]

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Israeli forces arrest citizens in Ramallah including a journalist | cc @pressfreedom @RSF_RWB

[ PIC 28/07/2013 – 07:48 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli military forces at dawn Sunday stormed the town of Arura, north of Ramallah, and raided citizens’ houses under the pretext of “searching for wanted people.” Local sources in Arura reported that the soldiers stormed and searched the houses of citizens Samir Aruri and Abdel-Rahman Khasib, […]

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