It has been nearly a year now since the National Security Agency in Egypt arrested Egyptian cartoonist named Ashraf Omar for his drawings criticizing the regime, then months later a journalist who interviewed Omar’s wife was arrested then the wife herself was also shortly detained, to be added to the 60,000 detainees in Egyptian prisons…
As global attention turns to U.S. President Donald Trump’s first international visit to Saudi Arabia on May 13, many journalists inside the kingdom will be unable to cover the event as they are behind bars, banned from writing, or silenced by fear of censorship. We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Saudi authorities to release…
