Afghanistan
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Detained journalist sues Bush administration
Posted by AP on 05 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Media Freedom, Middle East, Afghanistan
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By Lara Jakes Jordan, AP Lawyers for a Canadian television journalist being held as an enemy combatant in Afghanistan filed a lawsuit accusing the Bush administration of holding him illegally and demanding his release. |
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Afghanistan Moves To Censor TV
Posted by AP on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Middle East, Television, Afghanistan, Indecency, Censorship
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By Alisa Tang, AP Afghan lawmakers pass resolution aimed at censoring un-Islamic images on TV. |
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US military holding Afghan journalist for ‘Taliban contacts’
Posted by Agence France Press on 20 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, War Watch, Media Freedom, Afghanistan
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By AFP The US military has been holding an Afghan journalist working with Canadian Television (CTV) for three months because of his professional contacts with Taliban militants. |
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Afghanistan’s Senate endorses reporter’s death sentence: official
Posted by Agence France Press on 30 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Media Freedom, Journalism, Afghanistan
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By AFP Afghanistan’s senate has endorsed a death sentence handed down by a court to a reporter and journalism student accused of blasphemy. |
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Reporting Afghanistan: This Isn’t Ross Kemp The Hard Man Playing At Being A Soldier
Posted by The Independent on 28 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Middle East, Afghanistan
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By The Independent The former EastEnders star puts away his tough guy persona as he hits the dirt in a war zone. |
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Afghan Journalist Gets Death For Insulting Islam
Posted by Telegraph on 24 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Religious Right, Afghanistan, Indecency, Human Rights
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By David Blair, Telegraph The Taliban-style intimidation of Afghan newspapers came to the surface after a journalist was sentenced to death for distributing an article that “insulted Islam”. |
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Media Group Calls For Release Of Two Afghan Journalists
Posted by Agence France Press on 18 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Journalism, Middle East, Afghanistan
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By AFP Reporters Without Borders has called on the Afghan government to release two journalists accused of blasphemy, for which conservative religious clerics have demanded the death penalty. |
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The Media Activities Of The Taliban Islamic Movement
Posted by Al-Somood Magazine on 17 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, War Watch, Afghanistan
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By Al-Somood Magazine Since its inception as a military jihadi movement, the Taliban Islamic movement has recognized the extraordinary importance of the news media in deciding [the outcome of] conflicts, in particular, ideological conflicts. |
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Norwegian Reporter Dies After Kabul Hotel Attack
Posted by AP on 15 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Journalism, Middle East, Afghanistan
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By AP Militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47 rifles attacked Kabul’s most popular luxury hotel Monday evening. |
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Video-Blogging From Battlefield In Afghanistan
Posted by MediaChannel on 11 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: VIDEO, War Watch, Afghanistan
Vaughan Smith reports on Sangin Operations and the British and Afghan Armies fighting the Taliban in the “green zone” of Helmand province in Southern Afghanistan. Read about it at www.fromthefrontline.co.uk.
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Afghan Gov’t: No Media At Hostage Talks
Posted by AP on 13 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Afghanistan
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By Jason Straziuso, AP Afghan officials banned journalists Sunday from operating near the site where talks on the fate of 21 South Korean hostages are being held. |
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Bush’s Pro-War Front Group, ‘Vets for Freedom’, Rallies with Republican Senators
Posted by PR Watch on 18 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: USGOP, Bush, Commentary, War Watch, Cheney, Iraq War, U.S. Military, Afghanistan
Vets for Freedom (VFF), the well-funded pro-war lobby group, is cranking-up its PR campaign on behalf of President Bush’s war in Iraq with a news conference held in the US Capitol.
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Afghanistan: Interview with Baktash Siawash, blogger and journalist
Posted by Global Voices on 12 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Middle East, World Press, Afghanistan
| By Hamid Tehrani, Global Voices What follows is an interview about censorship, media and blogs in Afghanistan with blogger and journalist Baktash Siawash. |
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Tentative Dow Jones Sale Pact Said To Give Murdoch Power To Hire And Fire At The Journal
Posted by BlueRidgeNow on 28 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership, News Corp, US, Journalism, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, Business, Afghanistan
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By Richard Perez-Pena, BlueRidgeNow A tentative accord on the editorial independence of The Wall Street Journal would leave Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation with the sole power to hire and fire The Journal’s top editors if it succeeds in buying the newspaper’s owner. |
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Cheney’s Iran-Arms-To-Taliban Gambit Rebuffed
Posted by IPS News on 13 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Cheney, Action, Middle East, Iraq War, ABC News, Afghanistan
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By Gareth Porter, IPS News A media campaign portraying Iran as supplying arms to the Taliban guerrillas fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, orchestrated by advocates of a more confrontational stance toward Iran in the Bush administration, appears to have backfired. |
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