2005-2014

London (KurdishMedia.com) 6 May 2006: The PUK Security Forces and the Directorate of Halabja Monument have filed a court case against a women journalist, Ms Mesture Mahmud Muhammad, report Kurdish weekly Hawlati last Wednesday. Mestrue interviewed one of the protesters of Halabja Day, 16 March. The interview was published in bimonthly Rewan which is specific for women issues. Mesture told Hawlati...

LONDON, May 6 (IranMania) - The offices of an Iranian reformist daily newspaper was attacked overnight and its entrance blown up, the paper's public relations officer told AFP Saturday. "Around 4:30 in the morning they blew up the sign board and the entrance, but nobody has been hurt," said Jamshid Irani of the Etemad-Melli newspaper, adding that the attackers were unknown. Launched in February...

The Western media have the right to show images that can potentially cause uproar, political turmoil or insult religious groups, argues Roger Koeppel, editor-in-chief of the center-right German paper Die Welt. Koeppel's remarks were made during a debate entitled "Is free expression sacred?" to commemorate UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day 2006, which honors "the media as a force for change" and for...

The student newspaper at the College of DuPage on Friday published the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that caused widespread protests, many of them violent, across the Islamic world earlier this year. But copies of the Courier newspaper were hard to find on the Glen Ellyn campus Friday, a college spokesman said, because most of the free papers had been removed from distribution bins. The...

New York, May 5, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about criminal defamation charges recently filed by Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong against politicians responsible for the production of an opposition-run newspaper, The New Democrat. The Lees' lawyer also threatened to file defamation charges against Melodies Press Co...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has announced its decision to honour the independent newspaper, Yemen Times, with its 2006 Free Media Pioneer Award. Mr. Raidan Al-Saqqaf, Member of the newspaper's Board of Directors, will receive the prize on behalf of the Yemen Times at an award ceremony on 30 May, during the forthcoming IPI World Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland (27-30 May). Founded in...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at the imprisonment of pro-reform intellectual and journalist Ramin Jahanbeglou, who was arrested at Tehran airport on 28 April 2006 after criticising the Iranian government in a series of interviews for Canadian, Spanish and French newspapers in recent weeks. He was transferred to Evin prison on 4 May. "We call for the immediate release of...

New York, May 5, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the criminal defamation conviction of Venezuelan journalist Henry Crespo, who was handed an 18-month suspended jail term after reporting on government corruption. Crespo, a reporter for the Caracas-based weekly Las Verdades de Miguel, was sentenced by the Caracas Eighteenth Tribunal on Wednesday. The suit was brought in...

The convenient attitude assumed by the media during the dictatorship of Stroessner is today one of the most forbearing stories told. And it is curious that it happens this way, since the media, except in some cases, was closely linked to the bloodthirsty dictator. Journalism and servilism The convenient attitude assumed by the media during the dictatorship of Stroessner is today one of the most...

afrol News, 5 May - The case against ne of Senegal's most prominent journalist, Madiambal Diagne, was dropped on Tuesday on a procedural issue, ending a legal saga that spanned nearly two years and galvanised the Senegalese press. Mr Diagne, owner and managing editor of the popular independent newspaper 'Le Quotidien', had been sued after disclosing corruption. The charges against 'Le Quotidien'...