http://www.rsf.org/ fr-fr http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28237 Reporters Without Borders has written to Yemeni interior minister Mutahar Rashad Al-Masri calling for the immediate release of two brothers, Ali Nasser Kaid Al-Bokheiti and Mohammed Ahmed Hassan Al-Bokheiti, who were arrested on 21 July at a military roadblock with a British freelance journalist for whom they working as fixers. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28231 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28190 Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the government's behaviour towards certain opposition websites after lawyer and website editor Abdallah Souleiman Ali was detained for 12 days for “persisting in publishing legal and political articles criticising the role of the government.” It was the second time he has been targeted since March. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28172 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the findings of an Israeli investigation into the death of Palestinian cameraman Fadel Shanaa. “Israeli soldiers enjoy an impunity that endangers many journalists covering their operations,” the press freedom organisation says. “Only an impartial analysis of what happened would be able to prevent this kind of tragedy from recurring.” http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28142 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28103 Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns an allegation made by the official news agency IRNA on 6 August that endangers Nobel peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi and her family. An IRNA report claimed that Ebadi's daughter “converted to the Bahai religion nearly a year ago.” http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28054 “The Islamist party Hamas must stop arbitrarily targeting news media just because they do not blindly relay its propaganda,” the press freedom organisation said. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28067 Reporters Without Borders condemns a shooting attack on journalist Amanaj Khalil of the weekly Rudaw on 1 August in Kani Kardatt, a region to the west of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan. Khalil, who was not injured, had reportedly been getting threats because of one of his articles. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28072 Reporters Without Borders called on the Syrian government today to release jailed online journalist Habib Saleh, who was arrested in a market in the northwestern town of Tartous on 6 May. He appeared in court in Damascus on 4 August accused of writing articles that “weakened national feeling” and “incited civil and religious warfare,” under articles 285 and 289 of the criminal law. http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=28024 Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Ali Al-Mashhadani, an Iraqi photographer employed by the Reuters news agency, who was arrested by US troops while visiting the Iraqi parliament press centre in Baghdad's Green Zone on 26 July.