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Istanbul, (SANA) - Minister of Expatriates criticized on Saturday the image in which western media presents the status of the Arab and Muslim woman. Dr. Buthaina Shabaan said in a speech at the opening of the International Conference of Women’s Alliance for Intercultural Dialogue that the " western media is not fair on the Muslim woman nor does it reflect the genuine social reality she has reached...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 27 – Zimbabwe's security minister was quoted Friday in a government-controlled newspaper as saying that "the net will soon close" on those remaining journalists whose criticism of the government threatens the nation's security. The warning from the official, Didymus Mutasa, followed the arrest this month of employees and directors of Voice of the People, a news organization...

CHICAGO (January 26, 2006) -- Latin America can be a nasty place for reporters. Often enough that it can be called routine, journalists are assassinated on city streets by motor scooter-riding hit men, gunned down in a desert by narcotics traffickers or spirited off into the rain forest, never to be seen again. Their newspapers have been torched, their broadcast antennas bombed. Their cell phones...

IT was about 1963 when Miklós Vajda's stroll was interrupted and he was summoned to the police station "to explain to the uniformed thugs what I was actually doing." In those days, "Being educated, politically suspect and jobless was no joke." Vajda, who described the era in the fall issue of The Hungarian Quarterly, had to "prove to any policeman that I was not some idling truant, a 'parasite on...

With the Belarusian authorities increasing pressure on independent media in recent months, some newspapers are being published and printed abroad. One of those, the independent daily "Narodnaya volya," is being published in the Russian city of Smolensk and then transported to Minsk. The authorities have made life difficult for the paper -- a recent print run was kept for days at the border -- but...

LONDON (AFP) - A journalist who helped expose a series of police errors in the shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber has been arrested on suspicion of theft, a newspaper said. The scoop in August by television broadcaster ITV News was based on leaked statements from the official inquiry into the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes at a London subway station on June 22. The...

Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Professor Septimus Kaijkai Friday disclosed that government, in its effort to strengthen the relationship with the Media, has designed a project for training facilities for media practitioners in Sierra Leone. He made the statement during a press conference at his Youyi Building office in Freetown. "The reason for organizing the training is to improve on...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said today he would drop criminal defamation lawsuits against five human rights activists whose arrests were cited as evidence of his increasing authoritarianism. Hun Sen, the former Khmer Rouge soldier who has run Cambodia for the past two decades, said he had talked at length with the five last night and had agreed to accept their apologies for...

LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC accused Tehran on Tuesday of blocking its Farsi-language Web site, which it describes as one of the most influential sources of news in Iran. The BBC says its Farsi site, BBCpersian.com, normally receives 30 million page views a month, making it the British broadcaster's most popular foreign-language site. An Iranian culture ministry official, who asked not to be...

A lone gunman shot dead a journalist for a Tamil language newspaper in Sri Lanka's port town of Trincomalee on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported quoting the area's police chief. Subramaniyam Sugitharajah, 35, an ethnic Tamil, was shot repeatedly and died on the spot as he was walking to work, Deputy Inspector of Police Rohan Abahayagunawardena said when reached by the telephone. KILLED ON THE