The report on the journalists protection committee

The annual report of the journalists protection committee which takes New York as a headquarters said on Friday that despite the fact that Arab constitutions guarantee the freedom of expression and of the press as one of citizen's right, yet, Arab governments have been practicing practical methods to restrict these freedom through the state's ownership of the mass media, imposing audition and legal harassment and arresting journalists and terrifying them.

The report recalled examples about Arab states where the press is not independence like in countries including Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and others. The report added, on the other hand, there are greater portion of freedom availed to pressmen in Egypt, Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait and Yemen..