Mentioning that the decision to assign Mr.MazenDarwish, Hani Az-zeitani, Hussein Ghrair was including Mhd Mansour Alomari and Abdurahman Hamadah were allowed to be free while awaiting trial.

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 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 a new escalation against freedom of expression and media work in Syria, the Office of 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 agents of the Air Intelligence Intelligence (Mazzeh branch). The raid, that was carried out by members of the security apparatus along with a group of armed men, who caused panic and fear among employees and visitors of the center, especially since the officer in charge did not disclose the arrest or search warrants that are supposed to be issued by a public prosecutor.

With great sorrow and grief, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression receives news of citizen journalist Mohammad Mazhar Mohammad Omar Tayyara s death who was killed in the neighborhood of Al Khalidiya in the city of Homs on 4/2/2012. He left home in the neighborhood of the Inshaat at night to head to Khalidiya and speak to one of the international media channels on the current events in Homs. The shelling, however, hit him, he died later in Bir Hospital.

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression is deeply concerned about Syrian writer Hussein Isso who has been detained for five months now in the city of Hasaka.

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression is deeply concerned about the fate of Syrian cyber activist Ala Chweti who has been detained for more than four months now.

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression has learned today that Syrian blogger and activist Qais Abazly was released and that he is in good health.

Sources close to the Syrian filmmaker Ghassan Abdallah told the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression that Abdalla was briefly questioned over similarity of names and was released on the same day.

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An international press freedom organization seeks a new leader.

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Dear President Assad: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to bring to your attention disturbing reports of journalists being arrested and subjected to abuse in Syrian prisons.

Websites for the Syrian government are being hosted in Canada, where sanctions were imposed after a Syrian crackdown on pro-democratic protesters.

A group of employees inside the Egyptian state TV and radio building, Maspero, are hoping to revolutionize the decades-old media institution that has served as the mouthpiece of dictators.

Reporters Without Borders calls on the foreign media to take greater care to protect the Syrian journalists who work for them and to protect their other sources in Syria.

Burma is reportedly using a United States company technology for online censorship, it is the same company whose internet filtering servers were used by Syria to restrict online content.