<b>The World Congress and General Assembly of International Press Institute in Cape Town , was concluded. In the congress there were number of discussions according to the themes on “Journalism and Ethics”, “The reports of researcher journalists in Africa”, “the rules of journalistic’s security in dangerous areas”, “Press Freedom 20 Years On”, “The affects of current processes on the Press Freedom”, “The Role of China in the Developing World”.</b>
The chairman of International Eurasia Press Fund and National Committee of IPI in Azerbaijan, the board member of International Press Institute, Umud Rahimoglu informed about this.
According to him the budget of IPI was confirmed by board members and they reviewed the candidate of the board members with ended term,and new candidates of board members. In the general assembly the was discussed the candidacy of Sami – Alhaj, Manager of Public Liberties And Human Rights Department, Aljazeera Media Network and his candidacy was supported by the chairman of IEPF, he was selected to the board member of IPI. Sami Al-Haj is a Qatari journalist for the Al-Jazeera network. In 2001, while on his way to do camera work for the network in Afghanistan, he was arrested by the Pakistani army and held in the United State Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for over six years. He was released without charge on May 1, 2008 by help of Clive Stafford Smith. In the award ceremony the news agency, Al-monitor was awarded to “Free Media Pioneer” and Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamzolvezi was awarded to “World Meida Hero”.
In the event the negotiations between acting director General Managing Director Aljazeera Channel, Mostefa Souag, Senior Producer Hassan Saeed Elmogummer, Manager of Public Liberties And Human Rights Department, Aljazeera Media Network Sami – Alhaj, Cairo Bureau Chief,Abdelfattah Fayed, Umud Rahimoglu and the coordinator of IEPF. During the meeting cooperation agreement was signed between sides and decided to hold conference on “human Rights in Nagorno-Karabakh” in Baku.
At the end of the meeting the officials of Al-jazeera invited U. Rahimoglu to the capital of Qatar, Doha to participate in the Forum of “8th AL-Jazeera” will be held in 26-27 May, 2014. During the visit to Doha is planned to sign the Cooperation Memorandum and to select information representative of Al-jazeera on Azerbaijan.
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