Civil Society and Media

MADA: Significant Decline in Violations Against Journalists in April

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15/05/2012, PNN
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) has welcomed a significant decrease in media freedoms violations in the Palestinian territories during April 2012, compared to the previous few months ...

Palestinian Journalists Union Fights Palestinian Journalists

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13/05/2012, Jewish Press
As journalists worldwide celebrated World Free Press Day on May 3, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate in the West Bank chose to wage a campaign of intimidation against Palestinian reporters who commit the “crime” of meeting with Israeli counterparts ...

Literature festival shut down by police in Gaza

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11/05/2012, maannews
Security forces in the Gaza Strip shut down the fifth Palestine Festival of Literature late Wednesday, sparking outrage from participants and an apology by the chief of police ...

Hamas shuts down Gaza literary festival, only to later apologize

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10/05/2012, Haaretz
Palestinian rights group says armed Hamas men cut off electricity, confiscate cameras; festival's website says security officials apologized for the incident, calling it an ' individual error ...

How Journalists Allowed the Palestinian Authority to Fool Them

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09/05/2012, Gatestone Institute
In most cases it is the Palestinian Authority's security forces that are responsible for the chaos and corruption ...

Arab Spring Spurs Palestinian Journalists to Test Free Speech Limits

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07/05/2012, post-gazette.com
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yousef Shayeb, 37, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah, published an article in a Jordanian newspaper this year charging officials at the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Paris with corruption and espionage ...

Press freedom day 'a painful reminder' of decline in media rights

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05/05/2012, maannews
World Press Freedom Day is a "painful reminder" of the significant decline in media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories, a media watchdog group said Thursday ...