An Iranian journalist has lambasted the anti-terrorism legislation of the United States and South Africa, suggesting that the respective country’s outright refusal to negotiate was at fault for the unfortunate deaths of UK journalist, Luke Somers, and South African educator, Pierre Korkie. Both were killed by al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen[…]
Ahmed Mansour, a presenter on Al Jazeera Arabic, has been sentenced in absentia to fifteen years imprisonment by Cairo’s criminal court on the charge of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square during the January 25 uprising in 2011. Al Jazeera denies the charge against Mansour, which follows the sentencing of[…]
An American journalist held for nearly two years by rebels linked to Al-Qaeda in Syria returned to the United States late Tuesday, two days after Qatar negotiated his release, his family said. Peter Theo Curtis, 45, was reunited with his mother Nancy Curtis at Boston Logan International Airport after flying[…]
The cruel beheading of US photo journalist James Foley claimed by the Islamic State in Syria has sparked angry condemnations for the self-claimed Caliphate, fearing it will spark a backlash against local Muslim communities. “These guys are lunatics,” Dr Ameer Ali, former chairman of the Federation of Islamic Councils in[…]
The Islamic State group has released a video purportedly showing one of its fighters beheading US journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago. The video, titled “A Message To America,” was posted on social media sites on Tuesday, suggesting that it was an act[…]
Newspaper editors have slammed SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s proposal that journalists carry licences to work in the industry. Speaking to VOC News on Friday, a group of journalists said it was a tactic to control information circulation within the journalistic profession. Last week, the South African National Editors[…]
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