Israeli TVs and tens of other Israeli media outlets seem to be recruited by the government of Israel now.

When confronted with free speech as an act of self-expression, authoritarian powers throughout history have tried to assert their legitimacy and remove threats to their rule through censorship.

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said on Tuesday that the Saudi Arabian government “should be proud to have seized the title ‘Prime Arabic Internet Enemy’ from Tunisia.”

The most flagrant sign of the decline of Arab nationalist regimes is their transformation into hereditary republics.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Tunisian authorities to end the persecution and imprisonment of a critical journalist and to overturn a four-year jail sentence of another.

Human Rights Watch plans to go ahead with a March 24 public release of “A Larger Prison: Repression of Former Political Prisoners in Tunisia.”

Amnesty International called on the Tunisian President to end the daily harassment of former political prisoners as the country celebrates its national independence day on March 20.

Morocco’s anti-drug action The global strategy to combat drugs, adopted by the Moroccan government has “significantly” reduced cannabis production in recent years in Morocco, said Monday the U.S. State Department.

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Committee to Protect Journalists reports that human rights reporting in the Arab media has seen an increase despite efforts to curtail such coverage by repressive Arab regimes.