Six Papers Banned In Less Than A Week, Race Is Still On

Cairo on 11/8/2009

The Arabic Network For Human Rights Information, ANHRI, stated that the Arab governments from Atlantic to Gulf, have caught the fever of confiscating newspapers. In Yemen, Al Diar and Al Ahali were confiscated on 10/8/2009. Days before, the Moroccan government confiscated the two weeklies Telle Qu'elle and Nichane and followed by Le Monde. The Egyptian government caught the fever as well and confiscated Al Balagh Al Gadid a few days ago.

August 04, 2009

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today strongly condemned the order issued last Saturday by the Minister of the Interior to seize and destroy over 100,000 copies of two weeklies, TelQuel and Nichane magazines, which carried results of an opinion poll on King Mohammed VI's decade on the throne.

America has become a pretty discouraging place. Americans, for the most part, will never know what happened to them, because they no longer have a free and responsible press. They have Big Brother’s press. For example, on September 28, 2008, a New York Times editorial blamed the current financial crisis on “antiregulation disciples of the Reagan Revolution.”

Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is still in disarray. The human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity has prevailed, the economy is in tatters and the refugee crisis continues to escalate.