News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 96
RIGHTS: Call to Drop Case Against Journalist
- Inter Press Service
Press freedom groups are calling on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to drop its case against a French journalist accused of contempt over a book about the workings of the court.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Shades of Abu Ghraib in College Ragging Rituals
- Inter Press Service
As the annual scrimmage for coveted seats in India’s engineering and medical colleges gets underway, what many students dread is the sadistic ritual of ragging - or hazing - that they expect to undergo at the hands of their seniors.
DEVELOPMENT: Cambodia Looks to Educate Youth About Painful Past
- Inter Press Service
Walking through the former S21 security prison here, one cannot help but be struck by the hundreds of black-and-white photographs of former prisoners who were brought here, tortured, and then executed.
ARGENTINA: Drumming Up Black Awareness
- Inter Press Service
Argentina’s small black community, ignored by historical constructions that have traditionally focused on the influence of European immigration, is now fighting for recognition of its contribution to culture in the Argentine capital.
SOUTH KOREA: Schoolgirls at Forefront of Street Protests
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of teenagers, many of them female, were out on the streets Wednesday demanding a public apology from the Lee Myung-bak government for the tragic death of former president Moo-hyun Roh, who committed suicide last month.
DEVELOPMENT: UNESCO Race Wide Open
- Inter Press Service
The contest for a new UNESCO director-general is now wide open with the addition of last-minute nominees for the post, following the controversy around leading contender Farouk Hosny.
INDIA-AUSTRALIA: 'Curry Bashing' in Oz Sours Bilateral Ties
- Inter Press Service
A series of bloody attacks on Indian students in Australia, that many are convinced have racial undertones, threaten to undermine efforts to build relations between the two Asia Pacific countries.
EGYPT: Cyber Insurgency Rattles Regime
- Inter Press Service
Egyptian cyber-dissidents are becoming increasing vocal in their online criticism of President Hosni Mubarak's regime, utilising a widening repertoire of Internet networking and publishing tools to expose government abuses.
THAILAND: Courts to Military ‘Deaths in Custody’ Are Okay
- Inter Press Service
A verdict by a provincial court is poised to deepen the sense of injustice felt by Thailand’s Malay-Muslim minority in the country’s southern provinces, where an insurgency has been raging for over five years.
RIGHTS-CHILE: Ex-Soldier Arrested for Víctor Jara Murder
- Inter Press Service
A judge in Chile has charged a former soldier in the 1973 murder of internationally renowned Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara. Up to now, the only person prosecuted in the case was the commanding officer at the temporary prison camp where the songwriter was killed shortly after the Sept. 11, 1973 coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.
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