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Fourteen media organizations have made a commitment to provide equitable coverage of elections due later this year with the signing of a Code of Conduct at Le Meridien Pegasus last evening. By virtue of placing their signatures on the document, the representatives of NCN, Guyana Press Association, HBTV-Channel 9, AFP, Stabroek News, New Nation, MTV, Catholic Standard, Kaieteur News, Guyana...

NMouakchott, Mauritania, 01/08 - Mauritania has set up a consultative National Commission for the Reform of the Electronic and Print Press made up of 60 members from public authorities, the private press, political parties and the civil society. Led by Imam Cheikh, the Prime Minister`s communications adviser, the new body aims at establishing a complete diagnosis of the media situation, and make...

BEIRUT, 8 January (IRIN) - The Lebanese Press Federation announced it would press murder charges against those involved in the killing of journalist and Member of Parliament Gebran Tueini, who died in a car-bomb attack on 12 December 2005 in the capital, Beirut. According to a statement, federation president Mohammad Baalbaki commissioned has lawyers to "file a lawsuit against everyone which the...

THE last man to speak to Paul Klebnikov, the American magazine editor, as he lay dying of gunshot wounds on a Moscow pavement has challenged claims to be made by prosecutors this week that the killing was carried out by Chechen hitmen. Alexander Gordeyev, deputy editor of the Russian language edition of Newsweek, said Klebnikov had told him the shots were fired by a man of Russian appearance – not...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A senior U.S. intelligence official told CNN on Thursday that the National Security Agency did not target CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour or any other CNN journalist for surveillance. NBC raised the question in an interview with The New York Times reporter James Risen, asking him whether he knew anything about possible surveillance of Amanpour by the...

The safety of the Deputy Editor of Awareness Times Newspaper, Theophilus S. Gbenda, currently hangs in the balance following death threats issued against him by acting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Khrushchev Kargbo of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP). t all happened on Friday December 30, 2005 when Theophilus and myself were strolling along Siaka Stevens Street. Approaching the Law Court...

Two journalists who have been remanded in prison custody since December 23 2005, Klem Ofuokwu and Cleopatra Taiwo, have been released on bail. Judge of a High Court in Port Harcourt, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, who had earlier denied the Rhythm 93.7 F.M staff bail, ordered their release owing to the state government’s readiness to try them summarily. In his ruling on the bail application on Tuesday...

Mohamed Amir Ahmed (Fares Amir) was arrested by police at his home in Male’ yesterday, family sources stated. The reason for the detention is unknown. Family sources said that three men from the ‘Star Force’ unit of the police arrived at Amir’s house on Thursday and ordered him to accompany them to the police headquarters in the capital. Amir’s wife said that the police gave no reason for the...

On Thursday, the 22th of December-2005, hundreds of Yemeni journalists launched a vital shift for a new period of time, which can be named as the period of perceiving the transfer of power and concerns of the cultured contemporary man. This principle (the peaceful transfer of power), closely linked to democracy, can remove the absolute individual governance from the path whether it is monarch...

TALLINN, Estonia, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The Russian Federation's Federal Security Service (FSB) has charged that a Finnish journalist during a September visit to the Mari Republic in the Middle Volga not only gathered "negative" information about conditions but transferred money and instructions to opposition groups there. Thus, the News12.ru website reported on Dec. 28, the FSB concluded that Ville...