Monaco, November 10th, 2007: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is the founder and editor of the "Weekly Blitz", a Bangladeshi newspaper, which editorial line confronts religious hatred and openly urges Islam to embrace peaceful co-existence with other religions. Mr. Choudhury has been one of the utmost advocates of peaceful dialogue with the Christian and Jewish worlds, not hesitating to put his own life into jeopardy for the sake of the cause he chose to stand for.
After a full day of intense technology and business related debates, HSH Prince Albert II reminded the 300 media leaders, that the media could not be regarded as just any industry because "freedom of expression and its corollary freedom of the press, is one of the most fundamental human rights".