Journalists from five Arab countries are to launch a media watchdog group in reaction to what they call increased restrictions on press workers in the region, its founders said on Tuesday.
Twenty reporters from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Morocco and Libya will launch the Cairo-based “Free Media Workers Union” in June, an initiative supported by Egyptian-American sociologist and human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
The watchdog body aims to “chart and expose violations of freedom of expression... and contribute to the current efforts to abolish legislation that restricts freedom,” founder Yussef Abdel Latif, a journalist for the London-based paper Al-Moraqeb Al-Arabi, told reporters.
Source: Khaleej Times
And speaking of the state of Arab Media, Marc Lynch (a.k.a Abu Aardvark) has an interesting article in the Lebanese Daily Star on the change we’ve witnessed in the past ten years and the challenges and obstacles still faces by Arab journalists. Check it out!
Via: POMED Blog
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