2005-2014

The Christian Science Monitor has reinvigorated its Iraqi media campaign to free journalist Jill Carroll, who was on assignment for the paper when she was kidnapped on Jan. 7, 2006. The effort is focused on reminding Iraqis of her situation as she marks two months in captivity. Television stations with national and local reach in Iraq are broadcasting public-service announcements in Arabic that...

Mar 11, 2006 (DVB) - Renowned Burmese journalist Win Tin who has been detained at the notorious Rangoon Insein Jail for 17 years, is not allowed to celebrate his birthday which falls on 12 March. Moreover, Win Tin’s health condition is very poor as he has been suffering from high blood pressures, acute heart condition and diabetes, and he has been given medical check-ups once a month, according to...

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – The regional trial court here has acquitted a former police officer accused of masterminding the assassination of broadcaster Ely Binoya. Judge Oscar Noel on March 6 ordered the release from detention of Ephraim Englis, alias Toto. Englis walked out of the Sarangani provincial jail the next day. Noel said prosecutors failed to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that Englis had...

NEW YORK The search marketing industry now has 90 million reasons to take click fraud more seriously. In what may set an ominous precedent for the lavishly praised search advertising marketplace, Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit with an Arkansas company by awarding $90 million worth of advertising credit for any and all marketers who can claim they have been subject to click fraud. In a...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Muslim preachers and scholars on Friday called for reconciliation between the West and the Islamic world following the prophet cartoon uproar but told a conference on religious dialogue the Danish government had mishandled the crisis. "We feel there are forces of extremism which are aiming to light fires and transform Denmark from a peaceful country to a country which will...

Microsoft on Wednesday denied providing Chinese authorities with information that led to the arrest of a Chinese journalist on charges of incitement to subversion. Reports emerged Tuesday that journalist Li Yuanlong was charged last month for using a Hotmail account to post articles on an overseas Web site under a pseudonym. "Microsoft did not assist the Chinese government in this action, nor have...

Yahoo executives feel "horrible" about political arrests of Internet users in China but believe it's better to operate in that market and cooperate with authorities than not be there at all, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said on Wednesday. "It is more important for us to participate, not only for economic reasons, but to be able to [help shape where the industry is going]," Yang said during a...

Newspaper editor Jamal Amer arrived home just before dawn last August 23 after closing the latest edition of his independent weekly, Al-Wasat. A shout pierced the morning calm as Amer got out of his car, and, within moments, a man in a military jacket and traditional head scarf bundled the editor into a nearby Toyota pickup. Three men inside blindfolded Amer, bound his hands with cloth, and pistol...

A CNN-IBN employee was attacked and his vehicle set on fire in Lucknow's Hazratganj area on Tuesday morning, the channel has said. The attack came two days after CNN-IBN exposed the unaccounted wealth of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati. Four men with their faces covered dragged out two of the channel's employees from their vehicle and beat them up...

The student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan has accepted the resignation of its editor after the paper published a cartoon showing Jesus Christ involved in a sex act with a pig. The Sheaf newspaper came under fire around the Saskatoon campus and on radio call-in shows after publishing its most recent edition. The issue contained a Capitalist Piglet cartoon that many people said was...