2005-2014

Murder has overtaken crossfire and other acts of war as the leading cause of work-related deaths among journalists and media support workers in Iraq, and local journalists are far and away the most vulnerable to attack, a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found. CPJ research, compiled for the third anniversary of the conflict, shows that 67 journalists and 24 media...

Nationalists opposed to Turkey's engagement with Europe have sought out sympathetic public prosecutors across the country to file criminal complaints against journalists, writers, and academics who favour European Union (EU) membership, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found. DEEMED INSOLENT: Turkish journalist Haluk Sahin, left, arrives to a courthouse for a trial in

Isfahan/Tehran - A two-day conference titled 'Constructive Religious Dialogue - Framework for World Order' was opened Saturday in Isfahan, central Iran. The conference, attended by more than 200 religious scholars from almost 40 countries, including Iran, was organized to reach an international condemnation on the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed deemed by Muslims worldwide as...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Saturday that Denmark's prime minister had put off a visit to New Delhi due next month, amid fears that the trip could provoke fresh protests by Muslims against cartoons of Prophet Mohammad. Anders Fog Rasmussen's visit was planned much before the controversy over the cartoons, first published in a Danish newspaper, erupted earlier this year, triggering a storm...

A journalist of an English TV news channel, who was reporting live on holi celebrations in Chikpet area in Bangalore on Wednesday morning was molested by a gang of miscreants playing holi. According to the police, a gang of miscreants allegedly poured gulal and water colours on the journalist before a live camera, and tore her clothes. There were over 40 persons, who were playing holi at that...

China has agreed to drop charges against a Chinese journalist who worked as a researcher for the New York Times. Zhao Yan, jailed since October 2004 after his arrest on charges of fraud and illegally releasing state secrets, is likely to be released soon. Zhao’s case was threatening to overshadow Chinese President Hu Jintao’s forthcoming visit to the United States. Hu is expected to make his first...

STOCKHOLM, March 17, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Danish Muslims are planning to take the publication of cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) by a Danish newspaper to the United Nations. "The UN is the natural place for us to file our complaint," Agence France-Presse (AFP) quoted Qassem Said, spokesman for the Danish Islamic Community, as telling the...

STOCKHOLM, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Danish Islamite are to refer cartoon case to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights after Danish negative ruling of the case. The Danish Islamic Community organizations made the decision on Friday responding to the ruling, made by Danish State Attorney Henning Fode on Thursday, which said the publication of the prophet cartoons did not offend...

MARCH Madness starts this week in America, and for the rest of the month millions of basketball fans will watch the country's college teams dunk on each other, until the final of the men's national championship on April 3rd. CBS, a broadcast-television network, has shown the event since 1982–but this year it is conducting an experiment. As well as broadcasting the games on TV, it is streaming them...

Nearly four months after Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government launched a crackdown on Ethiopia's press following post-electoral street protests, there has been an alarming deterioration in press freedom conditions. Self-censorship is rife, critical newspapers are shrinking in number and 14 journalists face charges that could bring the death penalty, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)