BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 24 September: The Council of the Syndicate of Journalists called on the crisis committee it formed recently to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday [26 September] to tackle measures to be adopted after a court issued a …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Iranian Baztab website on 24 September Following seven months of extreme pressure from the government on the Judiciary, the office of the Baztab website in Tehran was finally sealed by officials from Tehran Prosecutor's Office on Wednesday afternoon [18 September]. According to this report, …

BBC Monitoring Text of article by Awat Ali entitled: "Mr Fatihi and Mr Ferhadi"; published by independent Iraqi Kurdish newspaper Hawlati on 23 September The incident of the arrest of Mr Fatihi [Tariq Fatih], Hawlati newspaper's concessionaire, at Hawlati headquarters, and the incident of the arrest of Mr Ferhadi at …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based, Saudi-owned Elaph website on 16 September [Report by Khudayr Tahir: "Did the Iraqi Satellite Channel spy on Abu-Rishah?"] The Iraqi Satellite [Al-Fada'iyah al-Iraqiyah] is the official state-run television station. It is currently under the hegemony of pro-Iranian militias that have transformed it into …

BBC Monitoring By Saeed Barzin of BBC Monitoring on 23 September The Iranian government suffered a defeat at the Majlis parliament on Sunday 23 September when it failed to rush through a bill which critics say aims to limit press freedoms. The bill had asked the conservative-controlled Majlis to discuss …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 23 September: President Husni Mubarak on Sunday [23 September] toured the Sixth of October-based Media Production City (MPC) and the new projects being implemented on its premises of about 35m sq.m. Earlier, also in this city, southwest …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Kuwaiti news agency Kuna website ["Kuwait"s Emir Urges Journalists To Refrain From Instigation" - KUNA Headline] Kuwait - His Highness Shaykh Sabah urged the chief editors of the local newspapers to refrain from publishing articles or reports that might negatively affect the …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Qatari Aljazeera.net website on 18 September [Report by A'ishah Mahamdiyah in Dubai: "Test Transmission of Sudanese Al-Shuruq Space Channel Begins From Dubai"] The Arab world will see a new Space channel Called Qanat Al-Shuruq [Sunrise Channel] on 15 October. It is a new Sudanese …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Qatari Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 18 September In a statement on the Internet, banned Tunisian Islamic Ennahdha Movement has congratulated President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's son-in-law, Mohamed al-Matiri, on establishing the first religious radio station in the country. The movement, headed by Rached …

BBC Monitoring Analysis by Peter Feuilherade of BBC Monitoring on 18 September On 6 September, Israeli air force planes reportedly entered Syrian airspace from the Mediterranean. Unidentified fuel tanks, possibly from one of the Israeli aircraft, were later found on Turkish territory near the Syrian border, indicating the planes' probable …