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Publication Date : 03-10-2014
Censorship in Pakistan appears in many forms, but of them is the worst is: intimidating, threatening, torturing and even killing journalists.
Media analyst Adnan Rehmat said this at a seminar on Media Ethics in the Time of Threat on Thursday. The seminar was held by Rozans Secretariat of Pakistan Coalition for Ethical Journalism with the Digital Rights Foundation and the Human Right Commission of Pakistan.
Rehmat said censorship today had become much worse than ever when even cable operators who were not content producers could easily block out channels on their own.
He read out excerpts from his book Reporting Under Threat, where the compelling personal accounts of three journalists were highlighted. Later these journalists -- Shumaila Jafary (BBC), Rana Azeem (PFUJ), and Yousuf Ali (The News) spoke as part of a panel.
Rehmat said telling stories was important as they helped us understand what the ground reality was. The job of journalists is to tell these stories but they faced several dangers in uncovering these stories.
A free media is intrinsic of an open society and a democracy, where people can freely communicate and air their opinions and issues, he said. Unfortunately, he said, journalists were threatened commonly by non-state actors and sometimes by the government too in different ways, and in 2002 UNESCO recorded that 612 journalists were killed globally, of them 10 per cent of them were from Pakistan.
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The worst form of censorship is killing journalists, say Pakistani journalists
CAIRO, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The Egyptian government confiscated all copies of a major Cairo newspaper to censor an article.
The independent newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm published a serialized interview with former Egyptian intelligence officer Refaat Jibril, who said in Wednesday's installment Egypt traded Israeli spies back to Israel, instead of executing them. Records indicate Egypt executed defendants convicted of spying for Israel as late as the 1980s, and the revelations may have compromised the Egyptian intelligence agencies' image of hardliners.
The confiscation of the newspapers came days after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told the American television interviewer Charlie Rose that Egyptian censorship is a thing of the past, saying, "There is no limitation and this is final. Anybody can be criticized in the media, from the president to any state institution. We are very keen on ensuring that."
Al-Masry Al-Youm is typically supportive of Sisi's administration, and its management had no explanation for the sudden act of censorship.
"They just said, 'Remove this article,'" editor Ahmed Ragab, said. "The regime tries to protect its story about history, and we journalists try to search out new facts. It is the normal fight."
The newspaper published its Wednesday edition with the article omitted, although it could be found on a website of world news stories.
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GWEN IFILL: There are protests again tonight in suburban Denver in Colorados second largest school district, where students have been battling over what should be taught in Advanced Placement history classes.
Nationally, some standards have already changed. But in recent weeks, Colorado has been the central focus, as the local school board responded with its own plan, and students and teachers are pushing back.
Hari Sreenivasan has the story.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The conflict over curriculum thats sparked nearly two weeks of protests has now come to a head. Its the prime topic at tonights school board meeting in Jefferson County, Colorado, just outside Denver.
Board president Ken Witt:
KEN WITT, President, Jefferson County Board of Education: I hope we come to a to good dialogue and get to a good plan for how to execute the boards obligation to oversee curriculum and to make certain that were doing the right thing for our students to ensure that were offering balanced, thorough curriculum and that were fulfilling our responsibility as a board.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The battle began when the College Board set out new national standards for Advanced Placement U.S. history courses. Theyre used by college-bound students to earn college credits. But a number of conservatives argued the standards depict the United States in a negative light and distort key events.
In Jefferson County, the school boards conservative majority called for naming a committee to make changes. One member offered a plan that said classroom materials should quote promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights.
At the same time, it said the course shouldnt encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law.
That language set off waves of students leaving class to march with signs and flags.
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AP History class standards spark fight over patriotism and censorship