Friday, June 25th, 2010
A Tirana court has
ordered Albania’s
Top Channel TV to pay €400,000 compensation to Ylli Pango, the former Minister of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sport after broadcasting
hidden camera footage of him, asking a female job applicant to remove her clothes. Investigative programme, Fiks-Tarif, had sent undercover reporters to investigate allegations that, whilst in office, Pango was offering employment in return for sexual favours. When giving judgement, the court said they found in favour of Pango because the recordings had been obtained illegally.
Friday, June 25th, 2010
On 23 June,
Viacom’s $1bn lawsuit against
YouTube was
thrown out by a US judge. The entertainment company had raised the claim citing widespread copyright infringement by the Google owned video hosting site. However, in his summary judgment, District Judge Louis Stanton held that Youtube was protected by the “safe provision” in the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act because they had swiftly removed all offending videos when prompted.
Friday, June 25th, 2010
Lawyer and human rights activist
Muhannad al-Hassani was sentenced to three years in prison by the Damascus Criminal Court on Wednesday 23 June. Having publicly called for the immediate release of political prisoners and condemned their unfair trials, al-Hassani was convicted of “weakening national sentiment” and “conveying within Syria false news that could debilitate the morale of the nation”. In May 2010, al-Hassani was the
winner of the prestigious
Martin Ennals Award in recognition of his human rights work. An appeal is being considered.
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Independent Radio station Ekho Moskvy is well known in Russia as a bastion of free speech. Editor-in-chief Alexei Venediktov tells Maria Eismont about everyday dealing with death threats, censorship and the Kremlin
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The Lahore High Court has ordered that several websites, including Google, Yahoo, Amazon and YouTube should be blocked by the government. The move came after the court found that the sites carried and promoted “blasphemous” material .
Earlier this year, Pakistan blocked Facebook in protest against the “Let’s Draw Mohammed Day” group that appeared on the social networking site.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Solicitor
Mark Lewis has issued a libel writ against the Press Complaints Commission.
Lewis, a highly-regarded defamation lawyer, claims the PCC libelled him, after evidence he gave to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee concerning the News of the World phonetapping scandal was allegedly disputed by senior members of the Commission.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Talk radio is the right-wing’s battleground for the soul of the USA, but Joe Queenan isn’t listening
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
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GOOD MORNING BELGRADE
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RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Maria Eismont: Alexei Venediktov on the secret of his survival
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PIRACY GOES KOSHER
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TABOO BUSTER
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REAL LIVES
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TOO FAST TOO FREE
Ernest Waititu : How Kenya’s broadcasters fell foul of the law
INDEX INDEX
BODY WORKS
COVERED UP
Marge Berer: The full frontal that got pulled
MAKE ME BEAUTIFUL
Omid Salehi: Inside the world of Iranian cosmetic surgery
FICTION
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