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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the counsel for the Press Association of the Supreme Court (PAS) to file single petition for each case of alleged harassment of journalists and specify special redress of grievance, which would make easy for the court while giving relief, reported the Online. Staff Report adds: The SC also sought details of the incidents of alleged harassment and...

Manama: Saeed Al Hamad, a journalist at the centre of a growing controversy over his writings against Muslim Brotherhood leader Wajdi Ghunaim, yesterday dismissed a petition to sue him as "an attempt by a political society to exact revenge on his newspaper and to curtail freedom of expression." "The petition seeks to put pressure on Al Ayam newspaper in order to influence its liberal editorial...

Reporters Without Borders spoke of Tunisia's government methods of gagging all those who once dared to oppose it, as journalist Abdallah Zouari continued to pay a high price for his former work with "Al Fajr," the official organ of the Islamist movement Ennahda. As Zouari reached the 5 June 2007 date which should have ended his internal exile, he had an extra 26 months added to his banishment...

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - ARTICLE 19 welcomes the Mexican Supreme Court's decision striking down amendments to the Law of Radio and Television The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice clearly ruled that amendments to the Law of Radio and Television, which had been enacted by the parliament violated the constitution and international human rights standards. This paves the way for the Federal Congress to...

June 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Iranian government officials have informed lawyers for Radio Farda correspondent Parnaz Azima that they will not return her passport and that her case will have to be decided in court. Azima's lawyer, Mohammad-Hossein Aghasi, told RFE/RL by phone from Tehran on June 10 that the Iranian Information Ministry declined the latest request to return her passport, which was...

New York, June 11, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes as “long overdue” the release of Nguyen Vu Binh, a journalist imprisoned since 2002 for criticizing the government and freed less than two weeks before Vietnam’s president is due to meet with President Bush. “For nearly five years, Nguyen Vu Binh and family have suffered needlessly because of his work as a journalist,” said Joel...

IPYS/IFEX) - On 22 May 2007, Mario Silva, host of the state-owned television station Venezolana de Televisión's (VTV) opinion programme "La Hojilla", accused a group of journalists who have been critical of Hugo Chávez's government of receiving money from the American government in order to destabilize the State. The following day, the pro-government newspaper "Vea", stated that the journalists...

Prague. Iran plans to continue holding a US-Iranian journalist kept in the country since January until her case can be decided in court, the US-funded broadcaster she works for said Monday, cited by AFP. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was quoting the lawyer for detained correspondent Parnaz Azima, who had her passport confiscated when she entered Iran in January to visit her sick mother. Mohammad...

(CENCOS/IFEX) - The disappearance of three Torreón, Coahuila-based reporters over the 2-3 June 2007 weekend was announced by Joaquín Martínez Garza, editor of "El Sol de Durango" newspaper. The announcement was made on the occasion of Freedom of Expression Day. A week after their disappearance, local and national media have reported very little on the incident. Not even the newspaper that...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo conferred a prestigious award Monday on a former Brooklyn journalist and American Peace Corps volunteer who was brutally killed in the Philippines, where she taught poor villagers and helped build a center to help protect whale sharks. U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenney received the Order of the Golden Heart award from Arroyo on behalf of...