Journalists Risking their Lives
Individuals at Risk | Posted by: , May 1, 2009 at 2:55 PM
This Sunday, May 3rd, is World Press Freedom Day and you can help push back against governments worldwide who violate fundamental rights to free speech and expression. Some of the journalists currently languishing in detention include:
- Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, who was sentenced last week to eight years in prison on charges of espionage after a flawed trial.
- Gambian journalist Ebrima Manneh who continues to be detained despite a court’s ruling in June 2008 that his rights had been violated by the Gambian government and should be released.
- Sri Lankan writer J.S. Tissainayagam who was imprisoned in 2008 for writing two articles that criticized the government’s military offensive against the opposition group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Here in the U.S. we often take for granted our ability to speak out against the policies of our government. The type of content on this blog alone would surely be censored in some countries and could even land writers in prison. We hope you’ll join us this weekend in taking action to protect journalists worldwide!
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Tags: amnesty international, ebrima manneh, free speech, freedom of expression, human rights, j.s. tissainayagam, Journalists, Roxana Saberi, world press freedom day
May 1st, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Take this opportunity to take action for Swedish citizen Dawit Isaac, imprisoned in Eritrea since Sept 23, 2001! Read the background and sign the petition here: http://www.freedawit.com/?lang=eng
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May 1st, 2009 at 4:25 pm
The 10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger
The Committee to Protect Journalists yesterday released a report naming the top ten worst countries in which to be a blogger: Burma, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Turkmenistan, and Egypt.
“Bloggers are at the vanguard of the information revolution and their numbers are expanding rapidly,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “But governments are quickly learning how to turn technology against bloggers by censoring and filtering the Internet, restricting online access and mining personal data. When all else fails, the authorities simply jail a few bloggers to intimidate the rest of the online community into silence or self-censorship.” http://cpj.org/reports/2009/04/10-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger.php
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May 1st, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Detained In North Korea : Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, please help.
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=76143902426&h=9fPqG&u=Lzk2z
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May 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
[...] some people have alluded to in the comments to this post by the Editors, bloggers are most definitely in need of press freedom just as much as [...]
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May 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
[...] some people have alluded to in the comments to this post by the Editors, bloggers are most definitely in need of press freedom just as much as [...]
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May 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
See my letter to the editor published today in The New York Times about the Sri Lankan journalist, J.S. Tissainayagam – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/opinion/lweb09lanka.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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