Censorship
Egypt restricts access to 57 news website: report
Egypt
June 12, 2017
Egypt restricts access to 57 news website: report
Independent news websites Al-Badil, Al-Bedaiah, and Medium, are now unreachable to internet users in Egypt, raising the total number of…
Lebanon bans the new Wonder Woman movie
Cinema/TV
June 1, 2017
Lebanon bans the new Wonder Woman movie
Lebanese authorities banned the new “Wonder Woman” movie Wednesday hours before it was due to premiere in the capital and…
TV channels and censor at odds over content rating
Culture
May 31, 2017
TV channels and censor at odds over content rating
The Ramadan TV season has only just begun, yet the drama has already started with several conflicts between Egypt’s Censorship…
Sisi ratifies new law allowing state full control over NGO work in Egypt
Egypt
May 30, 2017
Sisi ratifies new law allowing state full control over NGO work in Egypt
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified on Monday a new law that is set to regulate the work of non-governmental organizations…
Lebanese ministry calls for ban of Wonder Woman movie
Cinema/TV
May 30, 2017
Lebanese ministry calls for ban of Wonder Woman movie
Lebanon’s ministry of economy says it has asked the country’s security agency to ban the 2017 Wonder Woman movie because…
Staff of blocked news outlets threaten to protest at Press Syndicate
Egypt
May 30, 2017
Staff of blocked news outlets threaten to protest at Press Syndicate
A number of staff from local media outlets whose websites were blocked in Egypt held a meeting at Al-Bedaiah newspaper headquarters Tuesday to…
Press Syndicate chairman to defend blocked news sites unless evidence of ‘harming national security’
Egypt
May 25, 2017
Press Syndicate chairman to defend blocked news sites unless evidence of ‘harming national security’
Chairman of the Press Syndicate Abdel Mohsen Salama denied on Thursday that the authorities had notified him of the decision…
Egypt blocks 21 news sites including Qatari channel Al-Jazeera for supporting terrorism
Egypt
May 25, 2017
Egypt blocks 21 news sites including Qatari channel Al-Jazeera for supporting terrorism
Several Qatar-affiliated news outlets and other local news websites were blocked in Egypt on Wednesday in the wake of allegedly false footage…
22 TV series gain approval by censor, others slammed for indecent content
Cinema/TV
May 10, 2017
22 TV series gain approval by censor, others slammed for indecent content
Twenty-two drama series have been approved by the Censorship of Artistic Works to be screened on TV in the holy…
Council of Europe warns of rising media self-censorship
World
April 20, 2017
Council of Europe warns of rising media self-censorship
Journalists are increasingly resorting to self-censorship to avoid falling foul of the authorities in the face of physical and psychological…