Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
In this report, BCHR focuses on the repression of free expression on the web. Bloggers and online activists have been targeted via death threats and detention orders, leading to a state of extreme self-censorship.
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & Liberties
In the past few days, the authorities have arrested more photographers and photo-journalists who had been covering the pro-democracy demonstrations taking place in Bahrain since mid-February. The Yemeni authorities continue to violate media freedom. In the one of the latest cases, three government thugs known as baltagiyas attacked the Sanaa headquarters of the independent daily Al-Oula at dawn on 21 May, stabbing Hassan Sayeed, an employee.
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