BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 11 September: Al-Dustur Chief Editor Ibrahim Isa was referred to trial 1 October over rumours he published in his newspaper purporting the president was sick. Isa has spread the rumours intentionally to harm public interest, the prosecution …

BBC Monitoring Iraqi president's party said to redeploy officials The Iraqi president's party will redeploy officials "at different levels for different reasons", the website of independent Hawlati newspaper reported on 11 September. The report quoted a senior anonymous Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) official as saying "the PUK will make …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 10 September: Egypt's Higher Press Council (HPC) will review on Wednesday [12 September] two reports from the journalism practice and legal committee on rumours about President Husni Mubarak's health, HPC's secretariat office said on Monday during a …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Iranian Mehr news agency in English Tehran, 10 Sept: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is an example of Iran's power and glory, Majlis Speaker Gholamali Haddad-Adel said here on Monday. The IRGC reminds one of faith in God and upholding morality and …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency Islamabad, 9 September: Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has issued code of ethics for the mass media institutions and practitioners in its member states to safeguard the Muslim ummah's [community's] values and interests and to fulfil the …

BBC Monitoring  Less than 48 hours after the suicide attack which apparently targeted President Bouteflika during his visit to the eastern town of Batna, and in which 19 people were killed, a booby-trapped van was driven into the back entrance of the naval barracks in Dellys, some 80 km east …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Yemeni news agency Saba website Sana'a, 9 September: An official source has deplored remarks of the US Department of State that Yemeni security forces practised harassments against some Yemeni journalists. The source said that the deputy spokesman of US Department of State, …

BBC Monitoring Text of press release by Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 6 September Reporters Without Borders today condemned Hamas' decision on 3 September to dissolve the Gaza Strip branch of the Union of Palestinian Journalists, most of whose members are affiliated to Fatah or support it. At …

BBC Monitoring Analysis by Steve Metcalf of BBC Monitoring on 7 September Whatever happens in Pakistan in the coming weeks and months, it will take place in a very changed media climate, particularly as regards television. Since General Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999 he has introduced measures that ended …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Muslim Brotherhood website Ikhwanonline on 4 September [Report by Ahmad Ramadan: "Editor-In-Chief of the newspaper al-Dustur to be interrogated over what his newspaper published about the health of President Mubarak."] The supreme State security prosecution has issued a subpoena summoning colleague Ibrahim Isa, editor-in-chief …