2005-2014

The International Mission for Press Freedom and Free Expression in Nepal has condemned the persistent repression of the media and the increasing crackdown on freedom of expression since King Gyanendra seized absolute power on February 1, 2005. The members of the mission announced their collective intention for a follow-up mission to Nepal in March 2006. ARM STRUGGLE: Riot police officers detain a...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced shock at the murder of journalist Ronald Waddell, a former talk-show host on HBTV Channel 9, who was gunned down outside his home in a Georgetown suburb on January 30. Waddell was also an opposition activist who was outspoken in his criticism of the current government. As Waddell was getting into his car in the garage of his home at about 8 pm, two men

British newspapers have refused to publish the controversial Mohammed cartoons that this week prompted a violent backlash from Muslims across the world. Broadcasters took a different view and last night the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 all showed fleeting images of the cartoons. The row over cartoons of the Islam founder began last week after a senior Saudi Arabian cleric denounced Danish paper Jyllands...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have criticised four new public service broadcasting regulations as a tool that will impinge upon the public’s right to freedom of information in Indonesia. The new rules will come into effect on February 6, two months after the government agreed to a postponement due to media outcry. Based upon the Broadcasting Law of 2002, the regulations...

COPENHAGEN: As a Danish citizen of Pakistani descent, a onetime television anchor and now a prominent author married to a Dane, Rushy Rashid has led what could be depicted as a high-profile life. But, she said, nothing has forced her to define her attitude to fellow Muslims quite so much as Denmark's bitter fight with much of the Islamic world over a newspaper's decision to print unflattering...

PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen lashed out at extremist Muslim leaders in Denmark on Thursday for speaking with two tongues in the on-going row between the country and the Muslim world. Rasmussen said imams' positive comments in Danish about the recent days' thaw in the dispute over newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet Mohammed had been undermined by statements made in...

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen initiated a media offensive in Arab media yesterday. The prime minister sought to present Denmark's point of view in the on-going dispute between Muslim countries and Denmark over daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten's publication of 12 Mohammed caricatures. 'The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I have initiated what I would call a media offensive aimed at Arab...

These cartoons are much less offensive than what is routinely printed in every American newspaper about presidents, presidential candidates, and other pols. Yet strange as it may seem to Western non-Muslims, the rage over them seems to grow with each passing day – until the global scale of the response to it has now involved ambassadors from many countries, the United Nations, international...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian gunmen Thursday shut down the European Union's office in Gaza City, demanding an apology for German, French and Norwegian newspapers reprinting cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammad, Palestinian security sources said. The gunmen left a notice on the EU office's door that the building would remain closed until Europeans apologize to Muslims, many of whom consider...

Rabat, Feb. 2 - The Moroccan government condemned, here Thursday, the publication by some European newspapers of offensive cartoons against prophet Muhammad (PBUH) under the fallacious pretext of defending the freedom of speech. "The caricatures harm the Prophet and are a provocation act that offend Muslims' feelings," said Moroccan government spokesman, Nabil Benabdallah. Speaking at a press...