Through this report the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) aims to highlight cases of ongoing killings, attacks and threats against journalists and other media workers in four countries, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, and makes recommendations to enhance their protection using international mechanisms including the United Nations system.
Gulf Centre for Human Rights
13 September 2016
IS maintained its campaign against freedom of expression, in part by issuing more videos of journalists’ executions.
Freedom House
23 April 2016
IS affiliated hackers step up attacks on citizens, journalists and groups documenting human rights abuses
Freedom House
31 October 2015
Ranked 190th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2015
University professors dismissed, arrested and killed for supporting Regime opponents
Freedom House
1 May 2014
"Online tracking is a family affair"
Reporters Without Borders
12 March 2014
"More journalists are missing in Syria than in any other country in the world"
Committee to Protect Journalists
11 February 2014
Ranked 177th in annual press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders
1 February 2014
Tens of thousands subject to arbitrary arrests, unlawful detentions, enforced disappearances, ill-treatment, and torture
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2014
The report examines the growing perils of journalism in Syria, analyzing the evolution in the dangers and identifying the origins of the threats and difficulties that Syrian and foreign news provider have encountered during the 32 months of the conflict.
Reporters Without Borders
6 November 2013
Human Rights Watch
24 June 2013
Ranked 189th in annual global media freedom report
Freedom House
1 May 2013
Reporters Without Borders
12 March 2013
"University professors have been dismissed or imprisoned for expressing dissent, and some have been killed in response to their outspoken support for regime opponents"
Freedom House
16 January 2013
Syria's netizens "continue heroically to risk their lives to inform the world"
Reporters Without Borders
12 March 2012
Pro-government Syrian Online Army violently stole journalists' social media passwords, defaced Facebook pages, and spammed opposition websites
Committee to Protect Journalists
22 February 2012
Fourth worst nation for press freedom in 2011
Reporters Without Borders
26 January 2012
Female critics targeted by gender
Human Rights Watch
22 January 2012