Spotlight: Qatar
Censorship
Qatari authorities arbitrarily close Doha Centre for Media Freedom
GCHR believes that Qatari authorities have been threatened by the existence of a center that defends media freedom.
GCHR believes that Qatari authorities have been threatened by the existence of a center that defends media freedom.
Al-Nuaimi is a well-known human rights lawyer who voluntarily defended prisoners of conscience in Qatar, including poet Mohamed Rashid Al-Ajami.
The singling out of Qatar has as much to do with alleged support of terrorism as it does with a desire to shutter Al Jazeera.
Qatar's leading English independent news publication reports that its Qatar readers can no longer access its site, a development that could prove to be a fatal blow to free expression in the Gulf nation.
Committee to Protect Journalists
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders
PEN International
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain
Committee to Protect Journalists
Reporters Without Borders
Committee to Protect Journalists
International Federation of Journalists
Index on Censorship
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
Committee to Protect Journalists
PEN International
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
Committee to Protect Journalists
Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Freedom House
International Federation of Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
International Federation of Journalists
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