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ISLAMABAD, June 13 (APP): Speaker National Assembly Chaudhry Amir Hussain said on Wednesday that matter relating to restriction on entry of a senior journalist in the Parliament House will soon be resolved amicably. Responding to a point of order, the Speaker said that the press has a very important role especially in the press gallery of the parliament. The Speaker said he wanted to resolve this...

Two trainee journalists have been honoured for their reporting skills while studying at De Montfort University in Leicester. Scott McPherson won the Leicester Mercury District Reporter of the Year award, while Oliver Wright won the Johnston Press "one to watch" award. Both completed a postgraduate course in journalism at De Montfort University earlier this year. Students had to cover a patch of...

A legislator is discovered to have $90,000 in alleged bribe money hidden in his home freezer. In the United States, the government prosecutes, courts rule, someone goes to jail and the news media report every step of the process. Typically around Latin America, the government doesn't prosecute, because part of a politician's job is to steal and get rich in office. The courts look the other way...

Bulgaria's Interior ministry launched Wednesday a campaign for prevention and fight of EU funds embezzlements, initiated together with local journalists. Minister Rumen Petkov gave the go-ahead of the campaign together with the head of the "Journalists against corruption" club Reneta Nikolova. The initiative includes a video clip and a brochure with telephone numbers and e-mails for corruption...

Only pro-government media were admitted to a news conference which the Turkish military gave yesterday on the eve of naval manoeuvres near Famagusta bay. Three TV stations - Genc, Kibris and BRT - and the daily newspaper Yenidüzen were denied entry. An officer attached to the army’s bureau for civilian affairs told a BRT correspondent his station was excluded because it broadcast a documentary...

Baghdad: A senior Iraqi journalist was kidnapped on Wednesday in Baghdad, police said, in the latest attack against the media in Iraq. Gunmen in a convoy of cars seized Filaih Wadi Mijthab, managing editor of the state-run Al Sabah daily newspaper, while he was being driven with his son in Shi'ite-dominated Sadr City in east Baghdad. The son and driver were not taken. The media has been...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned judicial harassment of journalists who cover demonstrations. Four have been tried by revolutionary tribunals in recent weeks, three of them receiving prison sentences. Others are awaiting trial or the announcement of the court’s verdict. “We are dismayed by these sentences,” the press freedom organisation said. “These journalists just did their duty to...

Yemen's decision to block news stories delivered via mobile text messaging has drawn fire from free-press campaigners. Following a meeting with Yemeni Journalists Syndicate head Thabit Saeed Thabit on Sunday, prime minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar agreed to lift bars preventing access to political websites. But Yemen Observer reported Mujawar wants to suspend all SMS news services until his...

(MFWA/IFEX) - Lamin Fatty, a reporter with the banned newspaper "The Independent", who was convicted of publishing false information, has filed an appeal at a High Court in Banjul against his conviction. MFWA sources indicated that Lamin S. Camara, counsel for Fatty, appealed against the ruling immediately after the judge delivered it on 5 June 2007. The Kanfing District Magistrate Court, presided...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In early 2001, Adnan Shahine was dragged into the chilly streets of Bethlehem and shot dead by Palestinian compatriots who accused him of spying for Israel. The show of brutal scruples was chronicled by Time magazine correspondent Matt Rees and the dead "collaborator" joined his thickening file of Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, stories.Weeks later, Rees happened upon...