The questioning of journalists by the Tunisian government before military courts persists, even though such cases should have been handled by the civil judiciary under decrees 115 and 116 that have regulated the media sector since 2011.

President Kais Saied's stringent regulations on Tunisia since July 2021 have led to a decline in press liberty. He has steadily reinforced his grasp on authority, relegating the right to free expression to a time prior to the 2011 revolution, when President Ben Ali was overthrown and forced out of the country.

Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) released a report on March 16, 2023, revealing that the Tunisian president, Kais Saied, has imposed a state of emergency in the country since July 2021,

On March 8, International Women's Day, we at Women Journalists Without Chains urge the immediate release of female journalists and political prisoners

Journalist Hanane Bakour is still being harassed by Moroccan authorities, who have yet again scheduled her trial for April 10, 2023.

The Moroccan journalist Omar A1-Radi was convicted of several six-year prison sentences by the Court of Appeal in Casablanca in March 2022.

Yesterday morning, March 01, 2023, the Security Belt militia in the governorate of Aden stormed and seized the building of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, terrorizing the administrative body and its staff, in a flagrant attack on trade union and civil work and a flagrant violation of trade union freedoms in Yemen.