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Reporters Without Borders calls on the interior minister to have news photographer Ahmed Rifah of the opposition Minivan Daily released. Rifah was arrested as he left an allegedly illegal prayer meeting on 1 June in a mosque near the capital, Male, during which he took photos of participants. Scuffles broke out during the meeting. The police seized his press card and took him to Dhoonidhoo prison...

The role of the National Union of Journalists is to come under discussion at a public debate where former MP Tony Benn will be among the panellists. The discussion will be lead by a panel which also includes Jeremy Dear, NUJ general secretary, and David Aaronovitch, columnist for the Times. The moderator will be Charlie Beckett, director of the Polis think tank at the London School of Economics...

SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) -- President Roh Moo-hyun is scheduled to hold a live TV debate with senior journalists on Thursday over his government's latest decision to close almost all government-office pressrooms in August, presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-seon said Monday. "The pressroom reform debate between the president and local journalists will likely take place on Thursday, though details of...

AFC Bournemouth boss Kevin Bond is suing the BBC for a massive amount of compensation after he lost his job with Newcastle as a result of the Panorama bungs programme shown last September. He is suing the BBC for more than £300,000 over the Panorama affair. Bond claims that the BBC's reporting in the Panorama Bungs programme led to him being sacked from Newcastle. The 41-page writ issued at the...

Sahar al-Haideri, an Iraqi journalist, had received 13 death threats before she was murdered in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last week. Her killing brings to 106 the number of journalists, almost all Iraqi, murdered in the country since the US invasion in 2003 along with 39 support staff. Mrs al-Haideri, a 45-year- old mother of three who worked as a freelancer for many publications, knew she...

A new parliamentary bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act is due to be introduced under the Ten Minute Rule in the House of commons tomorrow. Tom Brake MP is set to introduce the Freedom of Information (Amendment) (No2) Bill, which would remove ministers’ power to veto decisions of the information commissioner. His Private Members’ Bill will also limit the time by which public authorities...

Gannett's USA Today and ABC News will share stories and resources for the 2008 elections. USA Today will give ABCNEWS.com political stories and blog updates for its Website. ABC will give USA Today election coverage video for its Website. The two will also collaborate on political stories. Election coverage pages on both media outlets' Websites will also be co-branded, the companies said in a...

LAHORE, June 11: The South Asian Media Commission (SAMC) has raised an alarm at death threats to Farida Nekzad, vice-president of South Asia Media Commission and a senior Afghan journalist, only days after the killing of two women media-persons. “This is very disturbing that after the killing of two Afghan women journalists in the past two weeks, some unknown people are sending out death threats...

KHANEWAL, June 11: Journalists and lawyers on Monday took out a joint protest procession against registration of a false case against six journalists of Makhdoompur Pahoran Town and torture on them at Kohna police station. The procession, participated in by a large number of journalists from all four tehsils of the district and office bearers of District Bar Association (DBA), Khanewal, started...

TASHKENT. June 11 (Interfax) - Criminal charges have been dropped in Uzbekistan against journalists cooperating with Deutsche Welle radio, a source at the Tashkent city prosecutor's office told Interfax on Monday. Nadezhda Bushuyeva, Yury Chernogayev, Saiera Ruzykulova and Obid Shabanov who had worked for Deutsche Welle without accreditation were charged with large-scale tax evasion and unlicensed...