Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) expresses its solidarity with the detained journalists Sarteeb Weisi Qashqai and Ibrahim Ali, and wishes them to be safe, and considers their arrest a violation of press freedom and the right of expression guaranteed by the Iraqi constitution that even obligates the authorities to protect this right.
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Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) condemns “the renewed detention of 66-year-old journalist Tawfiq Ghanem and calls for his immediate release, stressing that his stay behind bars is unjustified and he should not have been arrested for his media work."
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) calls on the Algerian authorities to respect the freedom of the press, refrain from prosecuting journalists and stop the crackdown on journalists and digital media.
In a statement on Iran’s crackdown on press freedoms and journalists, Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) says: “Iran keeps pursuing a policy of repressing and persecuting journalists and human rights activists and workers, and throwing them in prisons and detention centers for long periods and on unspecified charges.”
Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has called on the Houthi militia to immediately release Yemeni journalists who have been facing the death penalty since April 2020 in the militia-held capital of Sana’a.
The Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) has commented that the blogger and anti- impunity activist Myriam Bribri has spent two years in the courts just for exercising the right to freedom of opinion and expression guaranteed by both domestic and international laws by exposing the security services' violations against citizens.
The Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) is deeply concerned about the continuing detention of Alaa Abdel-Fattah by the Egyptian authorities, and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.
RSF- Deploring Yemeni journalist Anwar al Rakan’s death as a result of mistreatment while held for about a year by Yemen’s Houthis, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges all of Yemen’s belligerents to stop trying to restrict news coverage and to free all imprisoned journalists.
Yemeni journalist Anwar Al-Rakan died on 8 June just two days after his release from a Houthi prison, amid claims he had been tortured.
Media workers Mohammed Naser Al-Washali, Abdullah Al-Najjar and Abdullah Al Qadry were killed in two separate attacks in Yemen last week.