Saudi Arabia - Three online television journalists held by Saudi police

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Firas Baqna, Khalid al-Rasheed and Hussam al-Darwish, members of the production team of the Saudi Internet television series "Malub Aleyna". The series, spread over several episodes, tackles subjects that receive little coverage in the traditional Saudi media, such as sex discrimination, inflation and the lives of young people in Riyadh. The fourth episode, posted on YouTube on 10 October and entitled “The Poor”, reported on the living (...)

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