The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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October 30, 2010

Iloubnan - "It's been a bad month for journalism in the Middle East", CNN says - October 31, 2010


By all accounts, it's been a bad month for journalism in the Middle East, with claims of arbitrary arrests, publications forced to close, threats made against TV station executives and bloggers jailed, CNN website reported on Friday. The publication of a new global index on press freedomspaints a very sorry picture of Middle Eastern countries -- and all-in-all it appears to have been a bad year.

"Actually, to be honest, this isn't a drastic change from previous years," says Soazig Dollet head of the Middle East and North Africa desk at campaign group Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), which produces the index.

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