Source: Reporters without Borders
Afghan journalist Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi gave a news conference today at Reporters Without Borders headquarters in Paris about the plight of his brother, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, a fellow journalist who is under sentence of death in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. (Continued)
By Robert Wang
Source: GateHouse News Service, Arizona Silver Belt
CANTON, Ohio- Prompting charges of censorship, Malone College this week removed hundreds of copies of its student newspaper from campus because that edition had a photo of naked male students. (Continued)
By Shauntel Lowe
Source: Black College Wire
Drew Costley, a Howard senior and The Hilltop’s top editor for the 2007-08 academic year, said the action was taken because of more than $48,000 in outstanding printing costs. He also said $20,000 is missing from the paper’s account. Costley was reached in New Orleans where he was participating in alternative spring break to help Hurricane Katrina victims. (Continued)
BEIJING (AP) — Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular American video Web site. (Continued)
Source: Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders will launch the first International Online Free Expression Day under UNESCO’s patronage on 12 March, when it will also organise its second “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship,” urging Internet users to come and demonstrate on its website, www.rsf.org.
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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)
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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)
