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ISLAMABAD, Oct 1: The executive director (ED) of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Monday initially refused to admit an injured journalist, referred there by the Poly Clinic Hospital. However, on the directives of the Supreme Court, the Pims administration took the patient from the court premises and admitted him to the hospital. According to details, the Poly Clinic...

IT was a beautiful late-summer morning. The sky was that slightly sinister September blue, nobody had attacked me on the subway, my daughter Billie had eaten breakfast and even the dog was behaving. Really, there didn’t seem to be much to upset me. I could drop Bill off at school, pick up a coffee, breakfast and the papers and start my day. Then we stopped at the newsagent. Beneath the counter and...

(CMFR/IFEX) - The class action suit filed by 40 journalists and three media organizations against presidential spouse Jose Miguel "Mike" Arroyo for his alleged abuse of the right to litigate and violation of press freedom had not even reached the pre-trial stage a year after it was filed. Both sides had been locked in an argument over legal technicalities. But in a decision dated 24 September 2007...

(CJES/IFEX) - The editor-in-chief of the Internet publication "Novy Fokus", Mikhail Afanasyev, risks imprisonment, the interregional human rights association AGORA has reported. The journalist received a suspended prison sentence for slander in May 2006. All in all, ten criminal cases (all connected to his professional activities) were opened against the journalist over the past three years. On 21...

The industry has tried to get the word out, but many consumers still aren't getting the message: In a year and a half, millions of television screens could go dark. Not the fancy high-definition TVs or those connected to cable or satellite. But the 70 million sets relying on rooftop or "rabbit ears" antennas will end up showing nothing but snow. Broadcasters will stop sending analog signals and...

TAIPING: An Indonesian construction worker claimed trial to raping a 34-year-old journalist from his home country. Remmang, 46, pleaded not guilty to raping the woman between 9pm on Sept 17 and 1am the next day at a kongsi house at the construction site of the Mara Junior Science College in Liman Kati, Kuala Kangsar. He also denied hurting her at the same time and place. Remmang, from Sulawesi...

The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Delhi High Court order sentencing four employees of tabloid Mid Day to jail for publishing news reports about former chief justice YK Sabharwal. The apex court stayed the high court's September 21 ruling sentencing two journalists, a cartoonist and the publisher of the tabloid to four months imprisonment each for contempt of court following news reports...

ISLAMABAD, September 29: Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz was stopped by the security officials from leaving the Election Commission office, as the situation outside further deteriorated, when the Federal State Minister, Tariq Azeem was mobbed by the violent crowd and subjected him to severe torture. Earlier, the newsmen outside the Election Commission office were violently tackled and subjected to...

State-controlled Sri Lankan television station Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has sent four of its journalists on compulsory leave after they submitted a letter stating that their professional rights had been disrespected and damaged. According to the Free Media Movement (FMM), SLRC Producers' Union Chairman Kanchana Marasinghe, Organiser Herbert Kumara Alagiyawanna, Athula Peiris and...

ASTANA (Reuters) - A photograph of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in tight swimming trunks triggered outrage in the parliament of the former Soviet state on Wednesday. "For me, he (Nazarbayev) is a God-appointed person," said Bekbolat Tleukhan, member of the pro-Nazarbayev Nur-Otan party that controls every seat in the lower house. "This is not just impolite, it's pure shame. ... It goes...