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The private print media in Burma is outpacing its public counterpart and registering enormous growth. Yet, instead of encouraging cooperation in the business of informing and entertaining news-thirsty readers, the government is practically choking these independent outlets, says a Mizzima News report. There are unwritten rules that have been practised by the junta since the 1962 coup that ended...

Reporters Without Borders has learned of the arrests of three more Iranian journalists, one of them two days ago. They bring the number of journalists detained in Iran to six. “The Iranian regime is one of the most repressive in the world towards the media,” the press freedom organisation said. “Independent journalists are closely watched and constantly harassed. Arrests are frequent, and months...

New Delhi, July 3: Delhi High Court today set aside a lower court order convicting an Urdu newspaper jounalist on the ground that he had promoted feeling of hatred and dissatisfaction against the Government through his article 24 years ago. Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra ruled that the lower court had erred in concluding from the article that it was against the goverment. The judge said ‘’I consider...

ISLAMABAD, July 3: Reporters and photographers were the worst victims of the crossfire between the personnel of law enforcement agencies and the students of Lal Masjid as one of them died and four others injured while covering the event on Tuesday. The most unfortunate was Javed Khan of Daily Markaz who lost his life after he was hit by a bullet thought to have been fired by the Rangers who had...

NEW DELHI: For the first time ever, the government has booked a criminal case against journalists associated with a sting operation. The case is on the 2005 cash-for-questions sting, which showed 11 MPs accepting money for putting up questions in Parliament. The expose was endorsed by Parliament which expelled the 11 MPs as well as by the Supreme Court which upheld their expulsion. No criminal...

GAZA/MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - Clashes have erupted for the first time between two Palestinian Islamic movements, Hamas and its former ally the Army of Islam, reportedly holding hostage a BBC reporter, the conflicting sides said. Hamas, which promised to secure the release of Alan Johnston, arrested a leader of the Army of Islam, Khattab al-Makdusi, early Monday in Gaza after his supporters...

Bangkok, 02 July, (Asiantribune.com): The Burma Media Association (BMA) has called on authorities in Burma today to immediately release distinguished journalist U Win Tin, who is languishing in prison. He has spent 18 years of a 20-year sentence in prison on an alleged fabricated anti-government charges. U Win Tin, who is the country's longest serving political prisoner, was originally imprisoned...

OSLO - A TV journalist who worked for the Al-Arabiya network in the Gaza Strip is seeking asylum in Norway, saying his family was threatened, Norwegian state broadcaster NRK reported. We came to Norway because I, my wife and children received death threats, and we decided to leave Gaza, where I could not continue as a free-speaking journalist, Saif el-Deen Shahin was quoted as saying in a report...

The captors of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston said on Sunday they have prepared 30 booby-trapped cars that will be used against Hamas militiamen if they try to release the journalist by force. Johnston is being held by members of the notorious Dughmush clan in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City. The captors, headed by Mumtaz Dughmush, call themselves the Army of Islam. Members of the clan...

From evening arrests on the M6 to the vehicle in flames outside Glasgow airport, the events of the past three days have highlighted the role members of the public play in reporting news as it unfolds. Rolling news channels and newspapers published scores of videos and images taken on mobile phones and digital cameras by so-called citizen journalists. Many of the images have already been collected...