Follow-up

Two pominent reformist newspapers in Iran that had been banned resumed publishing this week. One of the papers, Hammihan (Compatriot), was banned in 2000 by the hardline judiciary after it called for improved ties with the United States, the Associated Press (AP) reported. On Sunday, the paper was back on the newsstands, and its top story — with the headline "Iran-US talks in Baghdad" — was on an...

Madurai, May 15 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu police Tuesday took into custody a strongman of the M.K. Azhagiri camp, known as Attack Pandi, the main accused in the attack on the office of the Dinakaran newspaper in Madurai in which three people were killed. Attack Pandi is the main accused named in the police complaint. He had surrendered before the Madurai rural police Tuesday and was produced before a...

Chennai, May 13: The Maran ~ Karunanidhi family divide is not the only thing that is out in the open in Tamil Nadu following the Madurai incident. The media too is a much divided house over whether the Wednesday attack on Dinakaran is to be seen as an attack on Press freedom. Refusing to be quoted openly most working journalists, including office-bearers and members of various media associations...

Chennai, May. 12 (PTI): Over 100 journalists and newspaper employees courted arrest here today while attempting to defy the prohibitory orders to take out a rally from Dinakaran office here, seeking the arrest of the "real culprits" behind the violence at the Tamil daily's office in Madurai on May 9. The arrested included R Rangaraj, President, Madras Reporters Guild, Babu Jayakumar, President...

Reporters Without Borders has hailed the progress being made in the inquest into the 1975 deaths of cameraman Brian Peters and four other journalists in East Timor but deplored some of the comments made to the Coroners Court in Sydney on 8 May 2007 by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and his defence minister, Bill Morrison. "We share the anger expressed by some of the journalists' close...

The attack on the Dinakaran offices in Madurai by DMK supporters Wednesday has come in for condemnation from press freedom organisations worldwide. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) mourned the deaths of three employees of Tamil daily Dinakaran who were killed in an attack on the newspaper’s offices. “We are horrified by the attack on Dinakaran newspaper and mourn these...

The Media Alliance has given evidence calling for greater uniform safety training for journalists at the NSW Coroner's inquest into the deaths of five Australian-based newsmen at Balibo, East Timor, in 1975. Deputy state coroner Dorelle Pinch is examining the murder of Brian Peters and four of his colleagues during the Indonesian invasion of Balibo. The official line has always been that the five...

Reporters Without Borders today hailed the resumption this week of an inquest into the murders of cameraman Brian Peters and four other journalists 32 years ago in East Timor, saying it hoped every aspect of their deaths would be clarified and insisting that it was not too late for those responsible to be punished. After suspending hearings for two months, a Sydney coroner resumed the inquest...

A military court has acquitted three journalists of publishing a leaked document that was intercepted by the Swiss intelligence service. The case, commonly known as the “CIA fax affair”, had been widely followed both in and outside Switzerland because of its implications for press freedom and the role of military justice. A military tribunal ruled that SonntagsBlick reporters Sandro Brotz, Beat...

BBC correspondent Alan Johnston’s abductors have demanded $5 million for his release, the London-based Asharq Alawsat reported Tuesday even as the police in the Gaza Strip scuffled with journalists demonstrating in support the journalist. The demand for ransom contradicts reports circulated Sunday that Johnston had been executed, which Palestinian Authority security officials said they could...