BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Sudanese newspaper Sudan Vision website on 26 December Sudanese Journalists General Union has announced its absolute condemnation of the detention of a host of Journalists by Sudan People's Liberation Army [SPLA] in the area of Mulbuk of Upper Nile [State] while they …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by populist Sudanese newspaper Al-Watan on 18 December The chairman of the board of directors of Al-Madd al-Jadid newspaper issued by the [former rebel] Sudan People's Liberation Movement's [SPLM] northern sector and the sector's information secretary, Deng Goj, has said that the Press and Publications …

BBC Monitoring Text of press release by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on 18 December New York, 17 December, 2007: The president of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said today that he will reject a restrictive new press bill that was approved by the regional parliament on …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Saudi state-owned official news agency SPA website Mina, 17 December: Prince Turki Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, the assistant minister of culture and information, said the media plan for this year's hajj season is going perfectly as it is planned. He pointed out …

BBC Monitoring Analysis by Steve Metcalf of BBC Monitoring on 17 December After six weeks of emergency rule, Pakistan's private television channels have been quietened but not completely silenced. There have been contradictory official statements about exactly what they are, and are not, allowed to broadcast. But the government appears …

BBC Monitoring Text of editorial entitled: "Al-Jazeera TV scandalous opinion polls: 'For or against attacks" published by Algerian newspaper Liberte website on 17 December Praising terrorism continues to be one of the main editorials of the Qatari TV station Al-Jazeera. After having broadcast programmes on the origin of terrorism in …

BBC Monitoring The Turkish overnight shelling of the Kurdistan Region border areas was widely covered in the Kurdish media on 16 December, but no official reaction has been observed as at 1230 gmt on that day. Websites The Kurdish media websites of Sbay, Awene, Chawder, Aso and PUKmedia all reported …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) website Tehran: The Public Relations Office of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC] has announced the launching of Sepah News website. In an official statement, the Public Relations and Publications Office of the IRGC has announced the official …

MideastWire Turki Al-Saheel of Asharq Al-Awsat, an independent Saudi owned newspaper, wrote on December 14: "Saudi Arabia permitted the Al-Jazeera channel which is based in the Qatari capital Al-Doha to cover this year's Hajj ceremony after the station pledged to remain "objective" in its coverage according to what a high …

MideastWire On December 7, the leftist independent daily As-Safir carried the following piece by Bumidyan al-Sahili: “Al-Manar television station carried, within its main newscast on Tuesday evening last week, a report about a strike in Al-Hirmil in a manner that was not on a par with the scale of the …