BBC Monitoring Since Sudanese authorities arrested British school teacher Gillian Gibbons on Sunday 25 November and charged her with insulting Islam and inciting hatred, no mention of the case has been made on both state radio and television. Privately-owned Sudanese press, has however, carried reactions and factual reports on the …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by independent, non-governmental Palestinian Ma'an News Agency website Bethlehem, 28 November: Palestinian security services said on Wednesday that Hizb Ut-Tahrir were responsible for the confrontations which erupted in Palestinian cities across the West Bank on Tuesday during anti-Annapolis rallies. The security services said …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Brussels-based Kurdish Roj TV on 27 November The Kurdish people now have another TV channel. Newroz TV, which had started test transmissions in February this year, began regular broadcasts today, 27 November. Newroz TV will broadcast from Sweden. Its transmissions will begin at 1700 …

BBC Monitoring In its 0530 gmt newscast, announcer Muhammad Qa'ud announces the first anniversary of the launching of the Al-Aqsa Satellite Television "in light of the persecution of its employees in the occupied West Bank by the Abbas's forces." The station dedicates its 0700 gmt morning talk show to the …

BBC Monitoring Excerpt from report by Sbay media website on 26 November Kurdistan Regional Government [KRG] will deport the correspondent of Turkish Ikhlas News Agency to Turkey following the publication of a report in which it claimed that the Kurdistan Region president, Mas'ud Barzani, was accompanied - on his trip …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Dubai newspaper Gulf News website on 25 November Pakistan's most popular private satellite channel Geo Television Network is to move its base from Dubai to Hong Kong, Gulf News has learnt. "We are making arrangements to air the transmission from Hong Kong …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by independent, non-governmental Palestinian Ma'an News Agency website [Report by Editor in Chief Nasir al-Lahham: "Masked Gunmen Abduct Ma'an Journalist" - Ma'an headline] Bethlehem, 25 Nov (Ma'an) - Ma'an journalist Hafith Asakra was kidnapped on Saturday evening [24 November] by five masked gunmen …

BBC Monitoring Text of unattributed report headlined "Severe disagreements over the formation of the committee of Journalists Syndicate's office", published by Egyptian opposition Wafd Party daily newspaper Al-Wafd on 22 November Consultations over the formation of the of the committee of Journalists Syndicate's office have witnessed a severe crisis due …

BBC Monitoring Three weeks after the declaration of a state of emergency, all but one of Pakistan's private TV networks have been permitted to resume transmissions, albeit with some restrictions. The one exception is Geo TV, based in Dubai. All four of its channels - Geo TV, Geo News, Geo …

MideastWire Salman Al-Dawsari of Asharq Al-Awsat, an independent Saudi owned newspaper, wrote on November 23: "Less than a week after it took a decision to shut down to Pakistani satellite channels, the authorities in the Emirate of Dubai allowed the ARY channel to resume broadcasting while it affirmed that the …