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Representative of the Azeri organization "Peace, Democracy and Culture", head of the political department of the Baku newspaper "Commentator" Roman Temnikov has been in Stepanakert since yesterday. {BR} The guest who visits Karabakh for the first time informed the correspondent of "karabakh-online" that he has very good impressions from Karabakh. "You have even managed to rehabilitate the city...

The Indian government has fallen in line with the sentiments expressed by the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid. The government has expressed "deep concern" over the growing controversy following publication of cartoons of prophet Mohammed, and said attempts to hurt the religious sentiments of the people should be avoided, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. "The Government of India is

The campaign for the decriminalising of defamation in Indonesia took a giant step forward with the Supreme Court decision on February 9 to clear Tempo Magazine chief editor, Bambang Harymurti of all charges of criminal defamation. “This is a great result for the campaign for press freedom in Indonesia,” said International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) president Christopher Warren. On February 9...

The Centre is in favour of removing restrictions on the movement of journalists across borders in South Asian region, Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Das Munshi said today. The Government would take a decision on the proposal to allow free movement of media persons before the next SAARC meeting to be hosted by India, he said. "We are committed to create positive environment in...

New York, February 10, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists praises the Indonesian Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to overturn the September 2004 criminal libel conviction of Tempo magazine's top editor, Bambang Harymurti. The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that civil, and not criminal, laws should apply. Lower courts had applied criminal law to convict and sentence Harymurti to a...

A trip to the newsstand these days can be a dizzying descent into a blizzard of numbers. The March issue of Elle Girl promises readers "375 excuses to shop." Harper's Bazaar offers "783 new ideas to flatter you." Marie Claire trumpets not only "71 easy hair and makeup how-tos" but a mind-blowing "1,157 hot looks (all shapes, all sizes, all prices)." Magazines, particularly the "service"...

Moroccan weekly TelQuel continues to bear the brunt of courts. A Casablanca court Wednesday ruled on appeal that it must pay 500,000 dirhams (50,000 euros) in damages in a libel suit brought by the director of a child aid association, Touria Bouabid. THE CRUSADER: When TelQuel editor Ahmed Benchemsi was in the US on a fellowship in August 2005, the Moroccan authorities used a novel technique to it

A Zimbabwe court has set aside a decision by country's media commission not to license the Daily News newspaper. The newspaper was ordered to stop publishing in 2003 for criticising the government. In March 2005, the country's supreme court overturned the original ban, but the media commission twice denied its application for a license, Reuters has reported. YESTERDAY'S HEADLINE, TODAY'S NEWS: A

The investigation into the murder of BBC producer Kate Peyton in Mogadishu a year ago has lead nowhere and her killers live openly in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. "Peyton's murderers enjoy complete impunity in Mogadishu," Reporters Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said in a statement issued together with the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) to mark the anniversary of the killing

A regional court in Peru has awarded long prison sentences to five men accused in the murder of radio journalist Alberto Rivera Fernández in Pucallpa on April 21, 2004, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). ALBERTO RIVERA: The Peruvian radio journalist was gunned down as he was entering his home, which also housed a shop belonging to the family. Two men who were posing as clients rushed