2005-2014

ISLAMABAD: Acting Chief Justice Rana Bhagwan Das has directed registrar Supreme Court Muhammad Ali to provide all due facilities to the journalists. His directives come in the wake of complaints made by a delegation of Press Association of Supreme Court on Tuesday, about the registrar's orders of vacating the pressrooms. The delegation of Press Association included President Syed Muzamil Hussain...

MPs have rejected calls for statutory regulation of the press following the News of the World phone tapping affair but have accused some editors of becoming "complacent" about the excesses of their staff. The Commons media select committee launched a review of the self-regulatory system that governs the press following the conviction of reporter Clive Goodman for listening in to hundreds of phone...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on an Ethiopian court to reject the prosecutor's demand for the death penalty for four journalists who have been convicted, along with opposition members and activists, of attempting to overthrow the government, treason and inciting violence. "We condemn this cruel and unreasonable demand by the prosecution who wants journalists...

SALEM, Ore. — The nation’s first law to help protect Oregon high school and college journalists from censorship by school administrations will be signed Friday by Gov. Ted Kulongoski The Oregon law makes student journalists responsible for determining the content of school-sponsored media, and gives them the right to sue schools if they feel free-press rights have been violated. It is the country...

A city court today granted interim bail for 10 days to an associate of suspended IPS officer R K Sharma, the prime accused in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar in 1999, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report in the Hindu. Additional Sessions Judge, Rajender Kumar Shastri, released Satya Prakash, also an accused in the scribe’s murder, on interim bail against a personal bond of Rs 20...

Reporters Without Borders today said it hoped Iran’s supreme court will rule in favour of a new investigation into the death of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi from a beating while in custody four years ago. After hearing an appeal from the Kazemi family’s lawyers on 2 July about the irregularities in an appeal court’s verdict, the supreme court is supposed to issue a decision this week...

Reporters Without Borders today called on the Saudi authorities to stop blocking Elaph, an Arabic-language news website that is very popular in the Arab world. Access to the site from within Saudi Arabia has been blocked since May 2006. “No government should be able to block access to a website without obtaining a court order first,” the press freedom said. “But this site is an independent and...

NEW DELHI: In a move aimed at transparency, the government plans to authorise a high-level of panel comprising vice-president, Lok Sabha speaker and Leader of the Opposition to decide on the head of the proposed regulatory authority for the broadcasting sector. This was being contemplated to ensure that the regulator inspires confidence, Information & Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi told...

New York, July 10, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the loss of respected Eritrean broadcaster Paulos Kidane who, CPJ sources said, died after attempting to join the dozens of journalists fleeing the government’s absolute control of the country’s media since a massive crackdown on the now-defunct private press. Kidane, a presenter with the Amharic service of state broadcaster Eri...

KATMANDU, Nepal: A search continued for a journalist abducted last week in western Nepal and one suspect has been arrested, a police official said Tuesday. Freelance journalist Prakash Thakuri was kidnapped July 5 from his home in Kanchanpur town, about 550 kilometers (330 miles) west of the capital Katmandu, said police official Chabilal Joshi. Officials received an e-mail Monday night claiming...