The Melted Pen

Source: Reporters Without Borders

Blogger Abed Tavancheh released on bail
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release on bail, on 11 July 2006, of blogger Abed Tavancheh. Bail was set at 50 millions tomans (about 50,000 euros). He is due to go on trial shortly, but the date of the hearing has yet to be fixed. The blogger was arrested on 26 May at Teheran University where he is a student, during demonstrations which led to clashes between young democrats and the Basij militia - students who are controlled by the authorities. (Continued)

Source: Honi Soit, Sydney University newspaper
Amelia Walkley explores the state of student media in Australia, and how our precious independent publications are threatened by VSU (Continued)

© 2008 Agence France-Presse

Source: AFP

An Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said. (Continued)

Source: Hornet Fullerton College
By: Danielle Carrilllo & Alex Lawrence

Danielle Carrillo:
“My vagina is obscene.” Or at least that was the consensus among students at Cleveland High School after the administration confiscated copies of Le Sabre, the student newspaper. (Continued)

Source: Student Press Law Center
By Emilie Yam
The editor in chief and two other editors at Lewis University’s student paper, The Flyer, resigned today amid disagreements with school administrators over control of content. (Continued)

Source: Hofstra Chronicle
Countless hours of work are required for producing a newspaper. College editors need to spend the same amount of time and late nights-on top of juggling another career-being a student. Students dedicate themselves to a publication for the experience of a supplement to the lessons learned in class. (Continued)

Source: Student Press Law Center
The state Senate’s Judiciary Committee will not hold a hearing on a bill created to protect public high school and college journalists from censorship, effectively ending its chances of being passed this session. (Continued)

Source: Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is very worried about the pressure being placed on the authorities by conservative religious leaders in the case of Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, a young journalist in the northern province of Balkh who has been detained since late October 2007 on charges of blasphemy and defaming Islam. The Council of Mullahs says he should be sentenced to death. (Continued)