Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring

The Syrian authorities must reveal the fate of Mazen Darwish and SCM staff

The undersigning organizations express their grave concerns for the safety of Mr. Mazen Darwish, Head of the Damascus based Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) and seven of his colleagues, arrested by Air Force Intelligence members on February 16, 2012 during a raid on their Damascus offices. Source: http//i-m-s.dk According to a trustworthy source within Syria, Mr. Darwish has been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment during his interrogation and imprisonment at an ... [ Read More ]

The AWG-MM condemns the occupation authorities’ act of breaking into Wattan TV and Alquds educational TV channels headquarters

The Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring condemns the occupation authorities' act of breaking into Wattan TV and Alquds educational TV channels that broadcast from Ramallah in the West Bank. The group considers this act as a new Israelian crime that aims at undermining Palestinian media and preventing it from transmitting the truth to the world. Occupation authorities military forces have broken into the headquarters of both Alquds educational TV and Wattan TV channels in the early ... [ Read More ]

Syrian Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Mazen Darwish and other detained activists Syrian Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Mazen Darwish and other detained activists

22.02.2012 The undersigned Organisations call on the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mazen Darwish, a prominent Syrian human rights defender and Director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) - an organization that enjoys UN ECOSOC consultative status -, as well as seven of his colleagues and a visitor, who were arrested on 16 February 2012 during a raid on their Damascus offices. In total 16 people were arrested during the raid at ... [ Read More ]

RAID ON SYRIAN CENTRE FOR MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Damascus, 21 February 2012. In a new escalation of the attacks against freedom of expression and media work in Syria, the Officeof the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) in Damascus was raided on Thursday 16 February at approximately one and a half PM by elements of the Air Intelligence Intelligence (Mezze branch). The raid, that was carried out by members of the security apparatus along with a group of armed men, caused panic and terror to the staff and employees and visit ... [ Read More ]

The AWG-MM holds the Syrian regime responsible for the lives of the employees of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression

The Arab Working Group for Media Monitoring (AWG-MM) holds the Syrian president personally responsible for the lives of theworking stuff of the Syrian Centre for Media and freedom of Speech in the Arab World. The group also demands the immediate release of the employees of the centre and a guarantee of their safety. Moreover, the group denounces the arrest of the activist and president of the centre Mazen Darwish. The Syrian security forces took him and his family from their house today. Th ... [ Read More ]

Report on media coverage on migrant labor in the Jordanian mass media

Jordanian Commission for Democratic Culture (JCDC) and Lebanese Center Maharat in cooperation with the Arab Working Group for monitoring (AWG) the mass media ,supported by the International Media Support (IMS). issues Its initial report to monitor the coverage of 8 electronic newsletter sites , 5 Read Newspapers and one radio station and three television channels, which comes as a part of a project to monitor media coverage for expatriate workers, in state and community mass media. The projec ... [ Read More ]

The human rights defender Sihem BENSEDRINE prevented from entering Algeria

The Arab working Group for Media Monitoring (AWG-MM), expresses its concern about the attacks on freedom of movement in the Maghreb region. Sihem Bensedrine, a Tunisian journalist and human rights activist, spokeswoman for the National Council for Liberties in Tunisia (CNLT), was turned back after her arrival at Algiers airport on Friday, the 10th of February 2012, on a 12 PM flight from Tunis. The authorities gave no explanation. This interdiction occurs a day before the visit of the Tuni ... [ Read More ]

Media monitoring in Tunisia

Background Tunisia is in a delicate legal period since the 27th February 2011, when Mr Béji Caîd Essebsi became the Premier Minister of the new temporary Government. Last Constitution has expired, and the time to write a new one arrived. The election to choose an assembly in charge to this mission is going to be on the 23th October. Three institutions are managing the Democratic transition: Government, the High Instance for the Fulfillment of the Revolution's Objectives, the Political Re ... [ Read More ]

The media coverage of the judicial system and the Supreme Council for Armed Forces in Egypt

Due to the importance of the transitional phase in Egypt, and the crucial role the media plays at this time, The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information ANHRI was determined to monitor the media coverage of the judicial system and the Supreme Council for Armed Forces (SCAF), being the most important pillars of laying the fundamentals of the post 25 January state. The manner in which the media behaves and the scope of freedom and the extent of responsibility it has strongly influence, whether ... [ Read More ]

The Arab working group for media monitoring condemns the crackdown on the Human Rights activists

The Arab working Group for Media Monitoring expresses its intense concern about the Bahraini authorities’ ongoing violation of the opinion and the speech freedom right, the Group condemns the Human Rights activists and defenders targeting policy in Bahraini, through the smear campaigns and the involvement into moral cases, or by employing police and legal prosecutionfor different type of charges in order to intimidate and to deter the activists from doing their work or to blackmail them or t ... [ Read More ]