Shared Internet news ok, but not on radio and TV
Geneva / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The merger of TSR, public television in French-speaking Switzerland, and RSR, public radio, is meeting some resistance from cantonal governments, which insist the two editorial teams must remain separate and independent. Vaud and Geneva, in a joint statement released Monday 23 November, say they would also like to see the traditional roles maintained of Lausanne as a radio centre and Geneva as a television centre. The statement was made in advance of today’s presentation of the merger project to the board of SSR, the parent company.
A UN body has ruled that the detention of Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi is illegal under Burmese domestic law. Suu Kyi has spent more than 13 years confined by house arrest under orders from the government.
The decision Monday 23 March marks the fifth time that Suu Kyi’s confinement has been declared arbitrary and illegal under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The ruling stated that Suu Kyi be released immediately and without condition from her continued house arrest. Reuters, BBC
