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GAZA/MOSCOW, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - Clashes have erupted for the first time between two Palestinian Islamic movements, Hamas and its former ally the Army of Islam, reportedly holding hostage a BBC reporter, the conflicting sides said. Hamas, which promised to secure the release of Alan Johnston, arrested a leader of the Army of Islam, Khattab al-Makdusi, early Monday in Gaza after his supporters...

Bangkok, 02 July, (Asiantribune.com): The Burma Media Association (BMA) has called on authorities in Burma today to immediately release distinguished journalist U Win Tin, who is languishing in prison. He has spent 18 years of a 20-year sentence in prison on an alleged fabricated anti-government charges. U Win Tin, who is the country's longest serving political prisoner, was originally imprisoned...

OSLO - A TV journalist who worked for the Al-Arabiya network in the Gaza Strip is seeking asylum in Norway, saying his family was threatened, Norwegian state broadcaster NRK reported. We came to Norway because I, my wife and children received death threats, and we decided to leave Gaza, where I could not continue as a free-speaking journalist, Saif el-Deen Shahin was quoted as saying in a report...

The captors of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston said on Sunday they have prepared 30 booby-trapped cars that will be used against Hamas militiamen if they try to release the journalist by force. Johnston is being held by members of the notorious Dughmush clan in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City. The captors, headed by Mumtaz Dughmush, call themselves the Army of Islam. Members of the clan...

BEIJING: The family of a reporter killed while investigating China's corrupt coal industry says the life sentence given to the mine boss who ordered thugs to attack the journalist is too lenient, and appealed Monday for the death penalty. The beating death of Lan Chengzhang was the highest-profile case of violence against journalists in recent years, and highlighted the lawlessness at the country...

NIAMEY, July 1 (Reuters) - Authorities in Niger have banned a newspaper for three months and given formal warnings to three others for "demoralising the troops" with their reporting on attacks by rebels in the country's remote north. Officials said the state communication council (CSC), charged with regulating the media in the West African nation, had suspended the fortnightly Air Info newspaper...

Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara said on Saturday that special code-of-conduct would be introduced for journalists in order to make the 'mission of the constituent assembly successful'. Asking journalists to work towards making constituent assembly election a success, he informed that the government plans to “bring together private and government journalists and...

WASHINGTON, July 1, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Amnesty International calls for all the evidence and circumstances to be considered as the trial of 18 people accused of involvement in the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink begins today in Istanbul. Hrant Dink was shot on January 19, 2007. The case will be heard in closed session at Besiktas Heavy Penal Court No.14...

Cairo: Seven years after his newspaper was closed down, Majdi Ahmad Hussain, editor-in-chief of Al Shaab, the mouthpiece of Egypt's now-dissolved Islamist Labour Party, sounds downbeat. "Though we have 14 court rulings in our favour, the government authorities obstinately refuse to comply," Hussain told a recent gathering in the Egyptian Press Syndicate. The authorities closed Al Shaab in 2000...

TONOTA - Some Tonota residents have described media workers as heartless ambulance chasers who pursue tragic stories for headline news. During a kgotla meeting addressed by the Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Mrs Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, the residetns accussed the news media of focusing on sensational news without regard for the truth. Journalists do not take peoples feelings...