11.   In an apparent attempt to placate Moscow, authorities have decided against stripping the licenses from lawyers defending a jailed Russian TV journalist, an official said Monday.

12.   In the letter, faxed to The Associated Press office in Mexico City, the organization also asked Castro to free three other recently jailed journalists.

13.   It said that the jailed journalists were denied access to lawyers and doctors and often spent long periods in solitary confinement.

14.   Jailed journalist Rafael Solano is among a new breed of independent journalists in Cuba, where the communist government has long controlled all news media.

15.   On Wednesday, a group of foreign newspaper publishers asked Foreign Minister Qian Qichen to help free a jailed journalist whose case has been championed in the West.

16.   Representatives of an international newspaper association on Wednesday sought the release of a jailed Chinese journalist, but Foreign Minister Qian Qichen told them he knew nothing about her.

17.   The courts have ordered the closure of dozens of pro-reform newspapers and jailed liberal journalists and politicians over the past two years.

18.   The family of jailed Chinese journalist Gao Yu also appealed to Clinton to press for her release.

19.   The family of jailed Chinese journalist Gao Yu appealed to Chinese President Jiang to release her on medical parole and urged Clinton to champion her case.

20.   The jailed journalists are Expo Times publisher and chief editor Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, acting editor Charles Roberts and general editor Gibril Koroma, the newspaper said.