Arab leaders crack down on TV stations
Arab countries have agreed to allow authorities to punish satellite television channels considered to have insulted national or religious leaders and symbols.
Extremist conviction quashed
Five young British men who were convicted after being found in possession of jihadist literature have won their appeal against the decision.
Responsible or servile?
Calls for Indonesian journalists to rein themselves in are a reminder of the bad old days of Suharto, writes David Jardine
President Yudhoyono of Indonesia last week called on the national media to practice more self-censorship. Using an open-air public meeting in the central Java capital Semarang, Yudhoyono called for “more responsible and useful” reporting.
Admitting that the current wider freedoms enjoyed by the press and electronic media were won after many years of struggle under the recently deceased Suharto’s authoritarian New Order regime, the president nonetheless espoused the ambivalence felt amongst the political class toward the boisterous Indonesian press.
Reporter shot on Journalist Day
A journalist was shot dead in Algeciras as Colombia celebrated the national Day of the Journalist.