Reports by the National Media Council said Dubai police denied any torture had taken place.
She described the functioning of self-regulation in The Guardian and in Britain, where the Media Council plays a significant role.
Dubai police have denied allegations they tortured three Britons awaiting trial on drugs charges, Dubai's National Media Council has said.
In February, Dubai's National Media Council said a "neutral party" had investigated the torture claims and found them to be untrue.
Under the law, a government appointed "media council" has the power to impose fines for violating "public interest, public morals or order".
Mr Cecil told the BBC he would not stage the play again, because cuts ordered by the Media Council would "disembowel" the production, he said.
Uganda's Daily Monitor newspaper reported at the time that the Media Council had warned the play's backers not to perform it until it had been approved.
In Croatia self-regulation has never really gained ground, despite the decision of the Annual Assembly of the Croatian Journalists' Association in 2006 to establish a media council.
The UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa cooperates with the Media Council of Kenya to highlight the crucial role of the media in the democratic process of a country.
But following a meeting in May with officials from the IAB and the Media Rating Council, both firms agreed to cooperate with third-party audits.
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The International Cricket Council's media manager for Bangladesh, Rabeed Imam, confirmed to BBC Sport that stones were thrown.
It recommended the matter be referred to the authority's governance committee and that the council review its media protocol and give "refresher" training to improve relations between councillors and officers.
The event, organized in cooperation with the Macedonian Institute for Media and the Journalists' Association of Macedonia, was attended by approximately 40 representatives of the media, including the Broadcasting Council, the Union of Syndicates, the President of Journalists' Association of Macedonia and the President of the Council of Honour (the only self-regulatory mechanism in the country).
He has the Security Council, the Western media and the Arab world behind him.
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About 150 media professionals, academics, press council members, news ombudsmen and representatives of international organizations are expected to attend.
One difficult step those fledgling reporters will have to take is handling the relationship with the press officers and media relations teams at their local council.
It emerged from interviews with media professionals and activists in Thailand that media accountability systems like the Press Council and journalist associations cannot be effective alone in a vacuum in the absence of awareness on the importance of self regulation among journalists and editors.
They are putting in place an administrative infrastructure that is akin to a local provincial council, handling everything from media affairs to helping families who lost their homes to providing legal aid to jailed activists.
The Samaria Regional Council released the video to the media on Tuesday.
Ognian Zlatev (founding member of the Bulgarian media self-regulatory body, the National Council for Journalistic Ethics), presents a thorough analysis of press councils in the abovementioned publication (OSCE, 2008, pp. 45-66).
Furthermore, the US media was quick to celebrate the UN Security Council's recent resolution against North Korea which calls for inspections of suspicious North Korean ships travelling in international waters as a great Obama achievement.
"This was a prank, it happened on Saturday and a member of the public has taken a photo and posted it on social media and it's gone viral on social media, " said Chris Parsons of Manly Council.
The smart cookies at the Social Science Research Council have spent three years researching media and software piracy in so-called emerging economies -- countries like Brazil, Russia, India and Mexico -- which has this past week resulted in a comprehensive report aimed at establishing the trends and causes of the unauthorized consumption of intellectual property.
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The council has been forced to launch urgent media appeals reminding people of the postponement.
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Meanwhile, among those who declined to participate in CPAC 2011 were: the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women of America and the Media Research Center.
Jan Kleijssen, Director of Standard Setting in the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, and William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative, Association of European Journalists, will also speak.
The school is referring media inquiries to its local education authority, Peterborough City Council, whose spokeswoman Jennie Kendall said the copyright issue was tending to overshadow another factor - that taking pictures, video or still, tended to put off the children.
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They sit in the upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, and are guaranteed a certain exposure to media attention.
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