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A letter from Tuncay Uzundal, a member of the alleged terrorist group on trial for journalist Hrant Dink’s murder, to the prosecutor in charge of the case has revived questions about the role of the police in Dink’s death. The contents of the letter were revealed last weekend by several Turkish news media including the daily Radikal in its 7 July issue. “Once again, the finger has been pointed at...

SALEM, Ore. — The nation's first law to help protect Oregon high school and college journalists from censorship by school administrations will be signed Friday by Gov. Ted Kulongoski The Oregon law makes student journalists responsible for determining the content of school-sponsored media, and gives them the right to sue schools if they feel free-press rights have been violated. It is the country...

ISLAMABAD: Acting Chief Justice Rana Bhagwan Das has directed registrar Supreme Court Muhammad Ali to provide all due facilities to the journalists. His directives come in the wake of complaints made by a delegation of Press Association of Supreme Court on Tuesday, about the registrar's orders of vacating the pressrooms. The delegation of Press Association included President Syed Muzamil Hussain...

MPs have rejected calls for statutory regulation of the press following the News of the World phone tapping affair but have accused some editors of becoming "complacent" about the excesses of their staff. The Commons media select committee launched a review of the self-regulatory system that governs the press following the conviction of reporter Clive Goodman for listening in to hundreds of phone...

Reporters Without Borders today said it hoped Iran’s supreme court will rule in favour of a new investigation into the death of Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi from a beating while in custody four years ago. After hearing an appeal from the Kazemi family’s lawyers on 2 July about the irregularities in an appeal court’s verdict, the supreme court is supposed to issue a decision this week...

New York, July 10, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the loss of respected Eritrean broadcaster Paulos Kidane who, CPJ sources said, died after attempting to join the dozens of journalists fleeing the government’s absolute control of the country’s media since a massive crackdown on the now-defunct private press. Kidane, a presenter with the Amharic service of state broadcaster Eri...

MOSCOW, July 9 — The American ambassador to Russia, William J. Burns, urged the Kremlin on Monday to “redouble its efforts” to solve the case of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov, who was shot three years ago in a contract murder here. The ambassador spoke at a gathering of Mr. Klebnikov’s family and friends here at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Mr. Klebnikov, an American of Russian...

BEIJING, July 11 (Xinhua) -- A leading Chinese trade union for journalists is considering action against a bogus "official" website for the organization. The website -- www.acja.cn -- runs genuine news industry information and links, as well as the emblem of the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA), the ACJA announced here Wednesday. "The fake website claims it is the website of the ACJA and...

A former Boeing employee was charged today with criminally obtaining sensitive documents from the company's computer system, including information police say later appeared in news stories in The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Gerald L. Eastman, 45, of Kent, was accused of 16 felony counts of first-degree computer trespass in court papers filed by the King County Prosecutor's Office...

Police arrested the editor of a local daily and the local correspondent of a television channel in an extortion case last night. The police picked up Sazedur Rahman Bablu, editor of the daily Hawa, and Nazrul Islam Mukul, Kushtia correspondent of CSB News, during a raid on the newspaper's office at about 8:15pm. The daily Hawa is owned by Syed Mehedi Ahmed Rumi, a former lawmaker and general...