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(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked by reports at least 42 journalists are currently facing libel charges filed by Juan Miguel "Mike" Arroyo, the husband of Philippines President Gloria Arroyo. According to information released by IFJ affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), the president's husband has sued 42 journalists...

New York, September 18, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder today in Iraq of Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, a correspondent for Baghdad TV. Six gunmen in two Opel cars shot the reporter/cameraman as he chatted with friends after midday prayers outside a mosque in the town of Ramadi, CPJ sources said. Al-Karbouli, 25, had received numerous death threats from insurgents over...

In retrospect, it should have been a given that Hizbullah would be capable of claiming “media superiority” and strength following the last war between Israel and Lebanon. However, various media sources were forced to jump at every opportunity to get information regarding Hizbullah leaders and the group’s political stand, after extended periods of silence on the part of Hassan Nasrallah and...

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something" - Plato Bihar has been the favourite punching bag of the Indian English language journalist community, actually not just the journalists but many English speaking "elite" of India. We see the parody of Bihar bashing being played out everyday. Sometimes one feels upset, sometime angry and sometimes...

After being tipped off, Vietnam police caught red-handed Sunday a journalist of a newspaper in Hanoi trying to extort money from a local business. Initial investigations showed Nguyen Hung Son, correspondent of the Hanoi-based Dien Dan Doanh Nghiep (Business Forum) newspaper, had coerced the Hai Van international transport company to offer him a bribery totaling US$10,000, otherwise Son would leak...

After years wandering the world I am, at last, thanks to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), getting to know my own country. Since starting my first term as chairman in 2003, I have kept up a pretty steady programme of visits to editors and proprietors outside London. This has, for instance, taken me to Scotland 14 times and to Newcastle on three occasions. The PCC, based in London, must not be...

(AXcess News) Washington - The documentary "Control Room," director Jehane Noujaim's film showcasing Al-Jazeera's role in the Iraq war, still ignites debate two years after its release. A panel of veteran journalists and a filmmaker convened Tuesday at the Arlington County, Va., Central Library, where participants watched and discussed the 90-minute documentary as part of the library's Cross...

The contempt of court proceedings against several Croatian journalists before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) are a new development in the history of the international courts that were created in the early 1990s to try senior officials suspected of war crimes or crimes against humanity. REVEALING MORE THAN CALLED FOR: The International Criminal Tribunal for...

It was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, is an icon of the left and a keystone of the recent cultural and political history of France. But now Liberation, the iconic Paris-based newspaper, is facing a financial crisis that could change it forever or even force its closure. One of the few beneficiaries of the crisis are the bars and cafes of the Haut Marais quarter of Paris where the newspaper is based...

NEW YORK - The U.S. military has been holding an Iraqi photographer working for The Associated Press since April, and the agency asked Sunday that he either be charged or released. Bilal Hussein, 35, was taken into U.S. military custody on April 12 in the Iraqi city of Ramadi and has been held since then without charge, AP said. “Bilal Hussein has been held in violation of Iraqi law and in...