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Let me kick off by condemning and denouncing in the strongest terms, the stupid, fascist vandalism perpetrated by masked and hooded State terrorists who smashed their way into the Standard Group premises – their downtown offices at the I&M building and their Industrial Area printing facilities on Likoni Road – yanking off power cables, pistol-whipping shocked reporters and workers, threatening to...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said Mumbai journalist Violet Godwin “might have been killed” due to negligent investigation on the part of the Mumbai police. In a letter to the Centre, which in turn has forwarded to the state government, the international body came down heavily on the Mumbai police. Now the victim’s brother, dissatisfied with the nature of investigation by the...

New technologies and a booming economy will help double revenues in India's television industry by 2010, but regulatory barriers could impact growth in the world's third-largest cable TV market, Reuters has reported quoting a new study. The Hong Kong-based Media Partners Asia (MPA) has estimated in a just-released study that India is set to become Asia's leading cable market by 2010, the largest...

Kenyans on Thursday awoke to the shocking news of a Government attack on the Standard Group, in which KTN was put off air, the printing plant disabled and tens of thousands of newspapers burnt. And the country united in roundly condemning the raid on the media group, which was described as a blatant assault on Press freedom. Media colleagues, politicians - including some members of Government -...

US Government has condemned the police raid on the Standard Group offices and called for the prosecution of those who carried out the acts. In a statement, it asked the Government to respect the freedom of media and expression. "These acts of thuggery have no place in an open democratic society. We deplore the current campaign of vilification and harassment of a selected media. Clearly, their...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will continue to pay Iraqi media to publish reports favorable to American forces following an investigation into the controversial practice, the top U.S. general in Iraq said on Friday. Army Gen. George Casey, commander of U.S. forces there, told reporters in a teleconference from Iraq that the investigation by a Navy admiral ordered by Casey "found that we...

TUNCELI, Turkey, March 3 (Reuters) - A Turkish court heard charges on Friday that nine journalists and human rights workers, including a reporter for Reuters, had given help to Kurdish rebel fighters. But Judge Murat Tekmen said there were faults in the case and set June 2 for the next hearing, saying those involved needed more time to prepare their testimony. The reporter for Reuters, Turkish...

March 3, 2006 -- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says it wants an explanation from Belarusian authorities for the deportation of some Ukrainian journalists and activists who arrived to cover its upcoming presidential election. Belarusian authorities detained the six journalists and three activists from the Ukrainian youth party Pora on March 2. One of the activists says the six were deported the same...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) -- A court sentenced a publisher to prison for defamation Friday after his newspaper published the names of prominent alleged gays and lesbians in a case that has riveted this conservative West African nation. Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga, publisher of the weekly L'Anecdote, was ordered to serve a four-month jail term and pay a fine of 1 million CFA francs (about $1,800 or 1...

ROME, March 3, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – A Vatican-controlled magazine urged Muslims to fight "extremism" and called for the West to firmly defend its principles following the row sparked by the publication of cartoons lampooning Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him). "If one must ask the West to avoid all forms of offence to religious feeling, one must also ask those...