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LAHORE: The Punjab University’s (PU) Board of Studies announced 25 grace marks to the 58 examinees of Development Journalism, in which 29 students, who were working journalists, had failed, said official sources on Tuesday. The examinees claimed at the exam time that the test was made out of questions that deviated from the course they were taught, and they boycotted the exam. Examinations...

The forefront of a marched staged by journalists and multiple representatives of the civil society, including university students, to advocate freedom of expression and demand resumption of the broadcasts of private television station RCTV, arrived in Quinta Crespo, downtown Caracas, after 1:30 p.m. While demonstrators chanted slogans and waved the Venezuelan flag, media members read out a...

About 100 journalists in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Wednesday converged in front of the army headquarters to protest against killings and other forms of violence directed at journalists in the country. During the protest, the journalists, who wanted to create awareness about the dangers posed by their profession, submitted a memorandum containing their grievances to DRC's defense...

June 28 (Bloomberg) -- ``Mi hijo esta muy mal. Muy mal.'' Even on the speakerphone from Miami, Blanca Gonzalez's voice is unmistakably choked with emotion. ``My son is doing badly. Very badly,'' she says. ``He said that from there he will leave dead.'' ``There'' is Kilo 7, a maximum-security Cuban prison in Camaguey, one of several in which journalist Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, now 37, has been...

Death threats, physical assaults and 32 lawsuits - this is what freelance journalist Lúcio Flávio Pinto has faced as a result of the one-man battle he is waging in the northern Brazilian city of Belém, capital of Pará state, the main gateway to the Amazon jungle. "I feel like Prometheus," says Pinto, who has published the "Jornal Pessoal" (Personal Journal) in Belém every two weeks since 1987...

A journalist won't have to hand over notes from his interviews with accused murderer Robert Baltovich for the man's second trial this fall. A judge denied a request by the Crown on Thursday for access to Derek Finkle's notes on Baltovich, who will be re-tried for the 1990 murder of Elizabeth Bain. Baltovich was convicted in 1992 of the second-degree murder of 22-year-old Bain, who vanished in east...

(PPF/IFEX) - Two video shops were destroyed and 10 others were damaged when a bomb exploded in a compact disk market in the city of Charsadda, located in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on 26 June 2007. On 24 June, Mishal Khan, the president of the Muttahida Shopkeepers Association of Charsadda, received a threatening letter from a previously unknown organization, Tanzim Taliban...

MORONI, June 27 (Reuters) - A Comorian reporter arrested while researching possible human rights abuses on a rebellious island said on Wednesday he was beaten by soldiers for hours. Elarif Minihadji was detained on Sunday by forces loyal to the newly inaugurated president of Anjouan, who was elected in polls held in defiance of Comoros' national government. Minihadji, a radio journalist and member...

Fathia Khaled, a presenter on state-owned Eri-TV’s Arabic-language service, was arrested earlier this month and taken to one of the country’s detention centres, Reporters Without Borders has learned from several Eritrean sources. One of the sources said she may have been taken to the Sawa military camp in the northwest after being in touch with one or more persons who had fled across the border...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is alarmed by recent blocks placed upon the media by the Bhutanese government. According to the Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA), the bhutantimes.com website has been blocked from local viewing by the Information, Communication and Media Authority (BICMA), following orders issued by the government. “We strongly urge the Bhutanese...