The International Media Council of the Next Century Foundation is convinced that the honesty or dishonesty of media affects the mental health of the world. Freedom of expression is vital as a means of permitting all views to flourish peacefully. It is a cliché that the price of this freedom must be continual vigilance – in particular vigilance to identify and expose the encouragement of malice, war and the incident of hate speech and image.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Editor-in-Chief targeted
18 May 2010, Index on Censorship report that Jamal Khashoggi, the editor-in-chief of Al- Watan, resigned after the newspaper published a controversial opinion piece criticising Salafism. Wahabbism is strictly adhered to by Saudi authorities because it is a form of Salafi Islam.
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