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A letter from Tuncay Uzundal, a member of the alleged terrorist group on trial for journalist Hrant Dink’s murder, to the prosecutor in charge of the case has revived questions about the role of the police in Dink’s death. The contents of the letter were revealed last weekend by several Turkish news media including the daily Radikal in its 7 July issue. “Once again, the finger has been pointed at...

NEW YORK: Harvard University has released a study that concludes that 60 percent of American teenagers pay little attention to daily news, Reuters reports. After interviewing 1,800 people from January through March, researchers at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government found that 28 percent of Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 said they pay “almost no attention” to daily news...

SALEM, Ore. — The nation's first law to help protect Oregon high school and college journalists from censorship by school administrations will be signed Friday by Gov. Ted Kulongoski The Oregon law makes student journalists responsible for determining the content of school-sponsored media, and gives them the right to sue schools if they feel free-press rights have been violated. It is the country...

ISLAMABAD: Acting Chief Justice Rana Bhagwan Das has directed registrar Supreme Court Muhammad Ali to provide all due facilities to the journalists. His directives come in the wake of complaints made by a delegation of Press Association of Supreme Court on Tuesday, about the registrar's orders of vacating the pressrooms. The delegation of Press Association included President Syed Muzamil Hussain...

MPs have rejected calls for statutory regulation of the press following the News of the World phone tapping affair but have accused some editors of becoming "complacent" about the excesses of their staff. The Commons media select committee launched a review of the self-regulatory system that governs the press following the conviction of reporter Clive Goodman for listening in to hundreds of phone...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on an Ethiopian court to reject the prosecutor's demand for the death penalty for four journalists who have been convicted, along with opposition members and activists, of attempting to overthrow the government, treason and inciting violence. "We condemn this cruel and unreasonable demand by the prosecution who wants journalists...

SALEM, Ore. — The nation’s first law to help protect Oregon high school and college journalists from censorship by school administrations will be signed Friday by Gov. Ted Kulongoski The Oregon law makes student journalists responsible for determining the content of school-sponsored media, and gives them the right to sue schools if they feel free-press rights have been violated. It is the country...

A city court today granted interim bail for 10 days to an associate of suspended IPS officer R K Sharma, the prime accused in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar in 1999, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report in the Hindu. Additional Sessions Judge, Rajender Kumar Shastri, released Satya Prakash, also an accused in the scribe’s murder, on interim bail against a personal bond of Rs 20...

Reporters Without Borders today said it hoped Iran’s supreme court will rule in favour of a new investigation into the death of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi from a beating while in custody four years ago. After hearing an appeal from the Kazemi family’s lawyers on 2 July about the irregularities in an appeal court’s verdict, the supreme court is supposed to issue a decision this week...

Reporters Without Borders today called on the Saudi authorities to stop blocking Elaph, an Arabic-language news website that is very popular in the Arab world. Access to the site from within Saudi Arabia has been blocked since May 2006. “No government should be able to block access to a website without obtaining a court order first,” the press freedom said. “But this site is an independent and...