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Turkey Arrests Three Activists for Promoting “Terrorist Propaganda”
Reuters/Murad Sezer Turkey Arrests Three Activists on Terrorism Charges: Turkey arrested three press freedom activists on charges of spreading “terrorist propaganda” after they edited the Ozgur Gundem...
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Morocco: Journalists Stand Trial for Use of Smartphone App
Photo Credit: Reuters In Morocco, seven journalists are standing trial in connection with their involvement with a citizen journalism training program utilizing a smartphone app. They are accused of...
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Family of Slain U.S. Journalist Sues Assad Government
PC: Paul Conroy The San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability and co-counsel Shearman & Sterling LLP filed a lawsuit against the Syrian government on July 9 for the murder of...
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Dissidents Facing Crackdown from Algerian Government
Two Algerian executives at KBC TV have been placed in court ordered pre-trial detention after being accused of making “false declarations” to obtain filming permits for a program. A culture minister...
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Bahrain Dissolves Al-Wefaq Opposition Group
Reuters On Monday, a court in Bahrain dissolved the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, the island-nation’s largest opposition group. Al-Wefaq will be shuttered and its funds will be claimed by the...
View ArticlePOMED Snapshot: Background on Turkey’s Slide Toward Authoritarianism
As Turkey deals with the aftermath of its failed coup last week, we would like to share our publication from 2015, entitled, “Stunted Democracy: Erdoğan, the AKP, and Turkey’s Slide into...
View ArticleU.S. Statements on Turkey’s Attempted Coup: A Timeline
On the evening of Friday, July 15, factions within the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The coup began between 10:00pm and 11:00pm Turkish local...
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Yemen Talks Extended After Near Collapse
Tensions between the two delegations in the long-running and unfruitful UN-sponsored Yemeni peace talks have escalated rapidly, resulting in a series of ultimatums and a near collapse of the...
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Palestine to Hold Local Elections for First Time Since 2004
Photo Credit: Reuters The Palestinian government has announced a date for local and municipal elections for October 8th, 2016, the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has said. The elections...
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Iraq Launches Investigation into MP Corruption
On Monday, during his questioning at a session of parliament, Iraq’s Defense Minister Khalid al-Obeidi accused the Speaker of Parliament Salim al-Jabouri and several other government officials of...
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Lebanese Parliament Fails to Pick New President for 43rd Consecutive Time
Photo Credit: The Daily Star/Mohammad Azakir For the 43rd consecutive presidential election session, Lebanon’s Parliament failed to select a new president. To hold a vote, 86 MP’s of the 128-member...
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POMED’s Stephen McInerney Discusses Bahrain in the Washington Post
On August 23, 2016, POMED’s Stephen McInerney was quoted in a Washington Post article entitled, “Clinton’s Bahrain problem has nothing to do with the Clinton Foundation,” by Josh Rogin. Regarding...
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VP Biden Visits Post-Coup Turkey
Photo Credit: Business Insider On Wednesday, August 25th, 2016 Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ankara to meet with Turkish officials and ease tensions between the United States and Turkey that...
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Yemen’s Political Rivals Vie for Control as Country Suffers
Photo Credit: The Guardian A Yemeni Houthi opposition delegation arrived in Baghdad on August 29 to garner support for its new “governing council,” announced as peace talks being held in Kuwait...
View ArticleNotes on Tunisia’s New National Unity Government
Raouia Briki - August 31, 2016 On August 26, Tunisia’s Assembly of the Representatives of the People (ARP), or Parliament, approved Youssef Chahed as prime minister and confirmed his new government...
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Syria Ceasefire Set to Begin despite Doubts
Photo Credit: AFP On Monday, September 12, a 10-day ceasefire is set to begin in Syria, followed by joint U.S.-Russia air strikes on jihadist militants. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Russian...
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Senators Introduce Bill to Block Saudi Arms Sale
In the wake of a $1.15 billion arms sale announced in August 2016, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced S.J.Res. 39, a joint resolution of disapproval to block the sale....
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Morocco Prepares for October Parliamentary Elections
Morocco is preparing to hold parliamentary elections on October 7, marking its second parliamentary election since 2011. Approximately thirty political parties are participating, including Morocco’s...
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After Two-Year Gap, Aoun Becomes Lebanon’s New President
After more than two years of delay, Lebanon’s Parliament elected Michael Aoun, a former chief in the national army, as the country’s next president on October 31. The office was left vacant after the...
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Jailed Journalist Dies after Hunger Strike
British-Algerian Journalist Mohammed Tamalt died in a coma on December 11, following a three-month hunger strike intended to protest his two-year jail sentence in Algeria. The jail term came as a...
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