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The new measures would allow the Israeli government to shut down TV and radio stations [Getty]
Israel
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'Chilling effect': Israel measures raise press freedom fears

Israel's far-right government has targeted the media with a series of measures allowing it to shut down TV stations and curtail freedom of speech

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 December, 2025
Paramedics carry Reuters reporter Raneen Sawafta, who was injured in an illegal settlers attack, on a stretcher in Beita town of Nablus, West Bank on November 08, 2025.
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MENA
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Media association slams Israeli settler attacks on journalists

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 November, 2025
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MENA
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Egypt renews detention of satirical cartoonist Ashraf Omar

Thaer Mansour
19 August, 2024
Gaza War
World
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Columbia Law Review halts website over Israel genocide article

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
05 June, 2024
A person's hands wrapped around jail bars
Palestine
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Haaretz publishes censored op-ed on jailing of Palestinians

The New Arab Staff
31 May, 2024
Dubai
UAE
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UAE bans Dubai-based website for ‘false news’

The New Arab
27 July, 2017
Al-Jazeera
UAE
MENA
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UN, media watchdog outraged over 'Al-Jazeera closure' demands

The New Arab
29 June, 2017
Yahia Abdulraqeeb al-Jubaihi
Yemen
MENA
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Houthis sentence first journalist to death in 'farce trial'

Paola Tamma
12 April, 2017
Turkish Court
Turkey
MENA
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Over 100 journalists jailed by Turkey in post-coup crackdown

The New Arab
25 October, 2016
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ANADOLU
prison
MENA
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Iran arrests two pro-reform journalists

The New Arab & agencies
03 November, 2015
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Analysis
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Fighting cybercrime in Lebanon

Omar Qasqas
21 January, 2015