Headlines- At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
- Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
- The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
- Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
- To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
- In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
- Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.
Tag: Freedom of Speech
Morocco: Hajar Raissouni, New Victim of...
The trial of Hajar Raissouni , a reporter for the Arabic-language daily Akhbar Alyaoum , one of the last independent newspapers in Morocco, opened on Monday (September 9th) before the Rabat court of first instance. Arrested for illegal abortion on August 30 and kept in detention since then, the journalist denounces “fabricated accusations” and a “political affair”, related in particular to his recent articles on detainees of the social movement of “Hirak”
Moscow Protest
Thousands of people have joined a march in Moscow, defying warnings by the authorities against taking part in an unauthorized demonstration. The crowds are demanding opposition candidates be allowed to run in forthcoming local elections
China Wages Overseas Information War on...
Google says it has taken down more than 200 YouTube channels that were linked to the Chinese Communist Party’s disinformation campaign targeting the Hong Kong protests
For Sale: Georgia’s main opposition TV...
Media observers say that these plans only validate their belief that Khalvashi has, all along, been fronting for the ruling Georgian Dream Party and its billionaire chairman, Bidzina Ivanishvili
Hong Kong: Attacks Against Journalists Are...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Hong Kong authorities to protect journalists covering protests, which are increasingly targeted by the police and mafia gangs
Nicaraguan Journalists in Exile Send the...
More than a year has passed since protests against changes to Nicaraguas pension program turned into a full scale socio-political crisis
Mass Blocking of Social Media and...
Amnesty urged the authority that this decision should be overturned and the Turkish authorities must end their suffocating crackdown on the ever shrinking number of independent voices
Freedom of Expression in Uganda Takes...
Stella Nyanzi, formerly a research fellow at Makerere University’s Institute for Social Research, posted a birthday poem on Facebook for President Yoweri Museveni on 16 September 2018
China: RSF Demands Pardon for Journalist...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Chinese President Xi Jinping to pardon journalist Huang Qi, a two-time winner of the RSF award, sentenced today to 12 years in prison despite very serious health problems
Iraq: Journalist searched after revelations of...
An Iraqi judge ordered the search and arrest of a journalist after he revealed a corruption case involving local justice. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly condemns these trumped up charges against an investigative journalist