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Contempt of court proceedings have been started against the editor and owner of a New Zealand newspaper over the publication of suppressed police evidence collected during last year's police raids in the Ureweras. Solicitor-General David Collins filed papers in the High Court in Wellington on Monday against editor Tim Pankhurst and Fairfax New Zealand, the publisher of the Dominion Post, according...

An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press (AP) photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the US military, the news agency has reported. Hussein, 36, remained in custody Wednesday at Camp Cropper, a US detention facility near Baghdad's airport. A decision by a four-judge panel said Hussein's...

Gopal Raju, who founded the first successful ethnic newspaper 'India Abroad in the United States' died Thursday after a brief illness. He was 80. Raju, who was suffering from jaundice, was admitted to hospital about a week ago. He died from the complication of the disease. India Abroad popularity increased during emergency in India when it provided the outlet for the opposition leaders to vent...

The Supreme Court has questioned the bona fides of Vijay Shekar, journalist, and the Zee television channel in conducting a “cash for warrant” sting operation, in which an Ahmedabad magistrate issued warrants against the then President, the then Chief Justice of India and two others, according to a report in the Hindu. A Bench comprising Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justices RV Raveendran and...

Newspaper readers in the US agree with editors on the basics of what makes good journalism, but they are more apt to want looser rules for online conversations, a new study on news credibility has found. Newspapers highly discourage anonymous remarks, for instance, and editors are more likely than readers to want that principle applied to reader comments online, according to the Online Journalism...

Cuba's state-run television broadcaster will launch a 24-hour channel with mostly foreign content in a move to provide Cuban audiences with more variety, says a Reuters report. The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, ICRT, made the announcement Wednesday last at a conference of the Cuban writers and artists guild, where intellectuals criticised the poor quality of television programming in...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) have protested to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon, against a UN decision to investigate the "abuse" of freedom of expression where it constitutes "religious discrimination." In a letter to Ban, the Paris-based WAN and WEF said a decision by the UN Human Rights Council to require its special rapporteur on freedom of...

The Madhya Pradesh police on Tuesday released a Delhi-based journalist after detaining him for 42 hours. Nadeem Ahmad of the Milli Gazette was in the state to report on the recent arrests of activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), acording to a report in the Central Chronicle. The Chronicle reported: Nadeem Ahmad said that on April 6, he went to Aroda village under...

A BBC reporter in the UK was pinned to the ground by six policemen and searched under the Terrorism Act after his radio transmitter was mistaken for bomb equipment, says a report in the Telegraph. Max Khan, a correspondent for BBC Radio Stoke, was made to kneel down with his face to the floor in the centre of Hanley, Staffs. Police moved in on Khan after several shoppers raised concerns about an...

As a token of paying tribute to late Afghan journalist Ajmal Naqshbandi who was brutally beheaded by Taliban insurgents last year, authorities in Afghanistan capital Kabul have named a street after him. The street named "Ajmal Naqshbandi Avenue" is the first of its kind named after a journalist killed in Afghanistan, Xinhua has reported. While unveiling the plaque of the avenue, President of the...