A local court will grant journalists from The New York Times unrestricted access for four days later this month to study China's legal procedures. They will be allowed to enter any courtroom and hear any case as well as interview litigants and lawyers a move considered unprecedented in a Chinese court. A notice from the Shanghai High People's Court to the designated court, Pudong New Area District...
THE editor of the official newspaper for Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF party has been bailed by a magistrate after appearing in court charged with theft by conversion. Lovemore Mataire, editor of The Voice and close confidante of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite is accused of diverting $6 million from the publication into his personal savings account over a period of 14 months. State prosecutors say Mataire...
ISLAMABAD - Journalists in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday took to the streets to protest failure of authorities to recover a colleague abducted in the tribal North Waziristan region early this month. They demanded international journalists’ bodies to take notice of Pakistani government’s "apathy" not just towards that incident but the overall "intimidating" environment for the...
An explosion shook the offices of Albania's largest daily newspaper causing damage but no injuries, Associated Press reported. A bomb detonated Sunday at 2020GMT outside the offices of Shekulli "Century" in Albanian), the newspaper's editor�in�chief Robert Rakipllari said. Fifteen staff members were working at the time, he said. "We have had no conflict. We have had no threats. I'm sure this was...
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) members have urged the international community and media to respond to the attacks on journalists in Lebanon. CLARION CALL: Siham Tueni, right, widow of Gibran Tueni, raises her hand, while a speaker repeats Gibran's call, made in March, on Christians and Muslims to remain united for ever, during a sit-in to observe an hour of silence, a week
The Kiev Court of Appeal on Monday will launch a preliminary hearing in the case of murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgy Gongadze, agency ITAR-TASS has reported. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko had announced in March that the crime had been solved. He also said then that the murderers had detained and interrogated. Yushchenko set the task to "find the mastermind and contractor of the
BEIRUT: Ghassan Tueni, dean of the Arab media whose anti-Syrian journalist son was assassinated last week, has become for many Lebanese a symbol of national survival in the face of adversity. "Ghassan Tueni is like Job, but a stoic and warrior Job," prominent writer and journalist Elias Khoury told AFP as he described the 79-year-old former government minister, MP and diplomat who owns the...
BEIRUT: The father of slain anti-Syrian Lebanese MP and journalist Gebran Tueni is suing Syria's Ambassador to the UN for derogatory comments about his son. Veteran Lebanese diplomat Ghassan Tueni charged that Syria's UN ambassador Faisal Mekdad compared his son to a "dog" in comments reported Wednesday by the U.S. daily, The New York Sun. "I will sue him [Mekdad] before the American courts,"...
The New York Times has disclosed that George W. Bush secretly waived rules restricting electronic surveillance inside the United States, allowing spying on hundreds of Americans that normally would require a court warrant. But almost as stunning was the Times admission that it had held the story for a year. Indeed, it appears the information about Bush's secret spy order was leaked before Election...
A group of journalists exiled in South Africa have decide to form an association to deal with their frustration at not being able to work in South African newsrooms, writes Bate Felix. "This is an association of journalists based in South Africa, who because of oppressive media laws in their countries, cannot practice and have decided to cross the border," said Magugu Nyathi, the group’s...
