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Media Freedom
| “I have proof of the Norwegian government paying journalists to write against the government,” - Srilankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
| [Norwaynews] [11.02.2010, 08:58am, Thu. GMT] |
 General Sarath Fonseka will face immediate court martial for treason and he can be jailed for up to five years, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in an interview published today. Sri Lanka’s former army chief Sarath Fonseka will face immediate court martial for treason and he can be jailed for up to five years, the country’s Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in an interview published Thursday. Rajapaksa, a brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, also told Singapore’s Straits Times that Fonseka had planned to impose military rule and his candidature in the presidential election that he lost was backed by the US and Norway.
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 | | | | Norwegian cinemas sign digital roll-out deal with US studios |
| [Norwaynews] [01.07.2009, 07:05pm, Wed. GMT] |
The Norwegian cinema association, Film & Kino, has signed a virtual print fee (VPF) agreement with five Hollywood studios, to help finance the world’s first non-commercial national digital expansion. The agreement has been reached with Twentieth Century Fox, United International Pictures (local distributor for Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures in Norway), Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International, and Warner Bros. Pictures International. Jørgen Stensland, director of consultants at Film & Kino, said: “The digitisation project is a great undertaking for a small country. Under the deal the studios have committed to deliver wide releases to Norwegian theatres, including our own mobile cinema in rural areas.” |
| | | | Norway Journalist Arrested In Iran |
| [Norwaynews] [14.06.2009, 02:11pm, Sun. GMT] |
Authorities in Iran have arrested and detained a Norway News paper journalist who has reported for Norway news paper. Aftenposten reporter and his driver was arrested and taken to a cellar in the interior ministry in Teheran local Medias said today. It has become virtually impossible to engage in journalistic work out in the streets, "says Jørgen Lohne to Aften posten. The Committee to Protect Journalists said that at the end of last year, Iran was "the sixth-leading jailer of journalists." The group's Web site says more than 30 journalists were investigated or detained there in 2008.
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| Norwegian paper opts for reorganization rather than redundancies: journalist to delivery person... |
| [Norwaynews] [18.11.2009, 04:56pm, Wed. GMT] |
| Aftenposten, Norway's most trusted newspaper, needs to cut 15 editorial positions, reports journalism.co.uk. In order to do so through voluntarily measures, the Schibsted-owned paper has offered all of its journalists redundancy packages, part-time positions, or reallocation to other jobs within the company- including work as a receptionist or newspaper delivery person. The most amazing part, however, is what a paper deliverer in Norway can earn annually. The level of education is so high in Norway that there is often difficulty filling blue-collar job openings. Thus, the top paid delivery staff at Aftenpostern earned £80 000 in 2007 due to high wages and long hours. Normal hours at delivery work would still earn you about £40 000 a year. |
| | | | Norwegian journalists attacked in Georgia |
| [Norwaynews] [20.06.2009, 06:21pm, Sat. GMT] |
| The Norwegian freelance journalist Ragnar Skre was Friday night attack by five armed men in his own apartment in Tbilisi in Georgia. At the 22-time local time called it on the door at the home of the Norwegian in the Georgian capital, writes Aftenposten. When he opened the door, it was a masked man who held a gun to my head, "says Skre. A total of five men took him into the apartment, and Norwegian was pushed to the floor. |
| | | | Theatre of Terror - Journalist threatened in Norway |
| [NRK] [11.06.2009, 06:25pm, Thu. GMT] |
It is the Tamils in Norway who is behind the threats against me "says the journalist. The last two years in Norway, he has received several threats from what he believes is representative of Norway for the Tamil Tigers. I regard this as a direct death threats, says Journalist to Norwegian National Television (NRK). For a few weeks ago I was outside the U.S. embassy that this is a final warning to me and my family. "Stop your writing, was the message," says the journalist.
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The world's larges tobacco company Phillip Morris International (PMI) is taking the Norwegian state to court. PMI wants the Norwegian ban on displaying tobacco products in stores lifted, Dagens Næringsliv reports. There is no scientific evidence that the ban has any health effect, says PMI communication director Anne Edwards to the newspaper. She points to Iceland, which introduced the ban against the display of tobacco in stores in 2001.
