MADA: Attacks escalate to silence the press in Palestine   Ramallah - (2-5-2019). 26 years after the United Nations adopted the World Press Freedom Day on the 3rd of May, media freedoms are still the target of increasing

  Melhem: The government will protect press freedoms and no journalist will be arrested   Ramallah - (19/4/2019) - Palestinian government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem confirmed that the Palestinian government headed by Dr. Mohammad Ashtia

RAMALLAH, (1/4/2019) - The Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem held a session on Sunday (31/3/2019) to discuss the arrest of the journalist working for the Anatolia News Agency, Mustapha Kharouf (32 years). The Israeli prosecution has demanded to deport

Ramallah - March 19, 2019. MADA-The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms called on the Human Rights Council to exert the necessary efforts to follow up the Israeli violations committed against Palestinian journalists and to take legal

Ramallah - (17/3/2019) - The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) strongly condemns the large-scale arrests and attacks carried out by the security forces in the Gaza Strip over the last three days against journalists and workers

Ramallah (5th March 2019) - the District Public Prosecution in Jericho has extended the detention of An-Najah TV reporter, the journalist Hazem Imad Nasser, on Tuesday, corresponding 5th March 2019. When he was brought before the Public Prosecution, in

Ramallah - (14th Feb. 2019) Palestine press freedom index reflects an overall bad critical result in the areas measured during 2018. The index scored 484 points out of the total points 1000. This is a problematic result (orange) of a press freedom index.   This

Ramallah - (30/1/2019) The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemns the wave of arrests and detentions carried out by the Palestinian security services in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2019.   These

Ramallah – (11 Dec. 2018) – the Palestinian Center for Development & Media Freedoms “MADA” condemns raid of the Palestinian News Agency “WAFA” headquarters in Ramallah, on Monday, corresponding 10th Dec. 2018, by

Ramallah 05/12/2018- The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) launched a media campaign on social media network on combatting the hate speech in Palestine and promotion of conflict-sensitive journalism.   This campaign

Ramallah – (28 Nov. 2018) – the Palestinian Center for Development & Media Freedoms “MADA” has issued a special report on the Israeli attacks targeting female/male journalists during their coverage of the peaceful return marches

 Ramallah- 20/11/2018- The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) concluded two workshops on Monday 19/11/2018- the workshop lasted for three days and aimed at raising awareness of Palestinian journalists and media students