NEW DELHI: Here’s an instance of the social media, getting under your skin. Quite literally splitting it. Enraged by a photo posted on Facebook by a fallen out friend, a 15-year-old boy stabbed him with a paper cutter in New Delhi. The victim, had six stab wounds with his veins slashed and had to be [...]
SANA’A: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Yemen’s government and more specifically the Press and Publication court for continuing its “charade” of justice against two al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested last year while covering the uprising. In a written statement, the CPJ also demanded the Cabinet not to revive a restrictive Audio-Visual and Electronic [...]
New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country’s parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”. Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off television, especially in advertisements which they believe reduces woman to a commodity. Ad film makers and broadcasters in [...]
CAIRO: Reporters Without Borders condemns the raid carried out by the Egyptian police two days ago on the Iranian Arabic-language satellite TV station Al-Alam. “The Egyptian authorities seized the station’s equipment and issued a warrant for the arrest of the bureau’s director, Ahmed Sioufi, on the grounds that Al-Alam did not have the necessary operating [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Gay television characters can be a mode to tolerance and understanding, say Malaysia’s LGBT community. But the government disagrees, and they barred gay television characters from being shown on the country’s airwaves last month, in a move that has activists frustrated that the government is pushing the conservative tide against the community. “We [...]
Standing in the courtyard at RR Campus in Kathmandu, Roshan Mahato looks relaxed and proud. This, just seven years ago, was the spot where he was teased and harassed so badly by his peers that he transferred to another college. Today the president of Nepal’s LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) Student Forum, Mahato [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: The kids sit silently in front of the television. The elder brother turns slightly and watches as his father quickly turns the channel from a program that they say is too violent for the kids to watch. It’s a Tamil drama from India that shows violence, and Yussif, the father, won’t let his [...]
CAIRO: The investors of the Daily News Egypt newspaper, which abruptly quit publishing and closed its doors late last month, have reportedly refused to pay their editorial staff April salaries. A statement published by former staffer Reem Abdellatif via her personal Twitter blog alleges that Investors at EMS, which include Taher Helmy, partner at Baker [...]
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Tunisian authorities to respond to the current lack of judicial clarity, which presents a serious danger to freedom of the press and freedom of expression. The organization reiterates its demand for the application of new media laws to supersede the old legislation, which is at odds with new provisions [...]
Journalists should be protected. They should not face violence or arrest for doing their job. In Egypt, this is the farthest from the truth, where yet again this past week we saw reporters beaten, attacked and ultimately arrested by the military junta in Egypt that time and time again is unwilling to promote the very [...]
Goa (INDIA): A ruling parliamentarian wants the internet to be “purified” and abusive comments on celebrities and politicians online news portals, censored. Shantaram Naik, a Congress MP from the Upper House of the Indian Parliament said that “vile and defamatory” remarks like those found in the comments section of an online news report on Jharkhand [...]
Reporters Without Borders is pleased to report that “Forbidden Voices”, a film directed by Barbara Miller that highlights the Internet’s impact on freedom of information, goes on release in Switzerland on 10 May. Two years in the making, the document focuses on three courageous women bloggers from Iran, Cuba and China, countries that are on [...]
After deadly clashes on 2 May near the defence ministry, thousands of Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo and Alexandria two days later to protest against the army’s hold on power. In Cairo, demonstrators gathered, mostly in the Abbassiya district, near the defence ministry, despite warnings the day before from the army against any [...]
Lawyers in Egypt said that the 14 women detained by the military on Friday were released on Sunday after the legal appeal was accepted by the military prosecutor. A total of 15 women were detained on Friday in the forced eviction of the sit-in near the ministry of defense, and military prosecutor ordered 14 of [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian military arrested around 220 people, including journalists and media persons, following the forced evacuation of the Abbassiya sit-in on Friday. Among the detained are 14 women and 8 journalists, reported the Legal Front to Defend Egypt’s protesters. The non-profit legal front reported that the military prosecutor investigating the detainees harassed lawyers and [...]
CAIRO: At least 18 journalists have been assaulted, injured, or arrested in the past three days, while covering clashes between protesters and thugs and uniformed military personnel in front of the defense ministry in the neighborhood of Abbassiya in Cairo. The report comes from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). “Authorities cannot stand by while [...]
SANA’A: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a series of anti-press attacks in Yemen over the past 10 days that have included assaults on two journalists, threats against two more, and the official harassment of a local newspaper. “Yemeni journalists of all types have been attacked and threatened in recent days,” said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, [...]
CAIRO: The Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) on Wednesday set out regulating media coverage of the presidential elections, on May 23-24, a run-off, if necessary, in mid-June. Under the rules, only journalists and media professionals with permits issued from the HPEC will be allowed access to polling stations. The statement was released to Bikyamasr.com by Egypt’s State [...]
Egyptian activists declared Thursday May 3, a blogging day to support 8 activists, who were detained over their support of the Coptic marches that followed the 2011 New Year’s Day bombing, which killed 21 worshipers in Alexandria. Activists dubbed Thursday as, “If supporting Copts is a crime, we are all criminals,” with the intention of [...]
Egypt presidential candidate Hazem Saleh Abu Ismail launched an attack on the media on Thursday on his official Facebook page, saying that they are “forging” the truth. “The media is trying its best to forge the facts and cheat the people that the events of the Abbassiya were caused by supporters of Hazem Abu Ismail,” [...]
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