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Die Organisation f\u00fcr Pressefreiheit (in English)
——– Original-Nachricht ——–
\n> Datum: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:14:25 -0400
\n> Von: „IFEX Communiqu\u00e9“
\n> An: info@feminissima.de
\n> Betreff: IFEX COMMUNIQU\u00c9 VOL 17 NO 20 | 20 MAY 2008<\/p>\n

> ——| IFEX COMMUNIQU\u00c9 VOL 17 NO 20 | 20 MAY 2008 | ——
\n>
\n> The „IFEX Communiqu\u00e9“ is the weekly newsletter of the International
\n> Freedom
\n> of Expression eXchange (IFEX), a global network of 81 organisations
\n> working
\n> to defend and promote the right to free expression. IFEX is managed by
\n> Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.
\n>
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\n> http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/78635 |——
\n>
\n> ——| For a list of recent IFEX alerts, see the „IFEX Digest“:
\n> http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/74937
\n>
\n> FREE EXPRESSION SPOTLIGHT:
\n> 1. Vietnam: Country’s Media Condemn Journalists‘ Arrests
\n>
\n> REGIONAL NEWS:
\n> 2. Burundi: Public Broadcaster Employees Attacked
\n> 3. France: Bill on Protecting Journalists‘ Sources Does Not Go Far Enough,
\n> Says RSF
\n> 4. Uzbekistan: Three Years on From Andijan, Independent Press Still
\n> Strangled
\n>
\n> REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS:
\n> 5. Iraqi Kurdistan No Longer the Bastion of Press Freedom, CPJ Finds
\n> 6. Politicians the Main Perpetrator of Attacks on Press in Romania, Says
\n> Report
\n>
\n> AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
\n> 7. Turkish Publisher Wins IPA’s Freedom to Publish Prize
\n> 8. Entries Wanted for Bastiat Prize
\n>
\n> TOOLS AND RESOURCES:
\n> 9. Freedom House Delivers Internet Freedom Alerts to Your Inbox
\n> ——————————————————–
\n> FREE EXPRESSION SPOTLIGHT
\n>
\n> 1. VIETNAM: COUNTRY’S MEDIA CONDEMN JOURNALISTS‘ ARRESTS
\n>
\n> The arrests of two local reporters last week for „abusing their power“ by
\n> allegedly misreporting a major corruption scandal have led to an unusual
\n> confrontation between Vietnam’s government and the country’s
\n> state-controlled newspapers, says the Southeast Asian Press Alliance
\n> (SEAPA).
\n>
\n> Nguyen Van Hai of the newspaper „Tuoi Tre“ („Youth“) and Nguyen Viet Chen
\n> of the rival newspaper „Thanh Nien“ („Young People“) broke a story in 2005
\n> about senior government officials allegedly embezzling funds to wager on
\n> European football matches. The story led to the resignation of the
\n> transportation minister and other high officials in 2006. Nguyen Van Hai
\n> and Nguyen Viet Chen could be held for as long as four months while
\n> authorities investigate, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
\n>
\n> Vietnamese newspapers are generally deferential to the government, which
\n> controls most of the nation’s media. But last week’s arrests unleashed a
\n> deluge of protests from journalists and bloggers, who said the detentions
\n> would discourage aggressive reporting on corruption.
\n>
\n> „Honest journalists must be freed,“ read a bold headline in „Thanh Nien“,
\n> the flagship publication of the Vietnam National Youth Foundation, where
\n> Nguyen Viet Chen worked until he was jailed. The paper is demanding that
\n> he
\n> is allowed bail, reports SEAPA.
\n>
\n> „Tuoi Tre“ published a story on 14 May saying it was inundated by phone
\n> calls, emails and letters from angry citizens protesting the government’s
\n> move – the most it had received in 33 years of publication.
\n>
\n> The English edition of Vietnam.net highlighted the story and solicited
\n> mostly supportive views from politicians, lawyers and fellow journalists.
\n> National Assembly Deputy Duong Trung Quoc was puzzled as to why the
\n> government was „shooting“ the messenger while on an anti-corruption drive.
\n>
\n> The arrests also point to a worrying trend of the authorities detaining,
\n> harassing and jailing journalists in Vietnam using criminal and national
\n> security laws, say the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and RSF.
\n>
\n> On 13 May, Somsak Khunmi (Nguyen Quoc Hai), a long-time news assistant and
\n> contributor to Chan Troi Moi (Radio New Horizon) was sentenced to nine
\n> months in prison on terrorism charges. He was detained last November along
\n> with French-Vietnamese reporter Nguyen Thi Thanh Van and a group of
\n> political activists working for the pro-democracy Viet Tan (Vietnam Reform
\n> Party). Nguyen was released in December following international pressure.
\n>
\n> Authorities say Somsak is being detained for attempting to distribute
\n> pro-democracy fliers, a violation of Vietnam’s penal code. But CPJ
\n> believes
\n> his detention has more to do with his and Nguyen’s reporting on an earlier
\n> protest held in Ho Chi Minh City by aggrieved farmers who had been pushed
\n> off their land by state authorities.
\n>
\n> Bui Kim Thanh, a blogger, dissident and lawyer suffered a similar fate for
\n> defending women farmers made homeless by illegal land grabs, says
\n> International PEN’s Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC). Police stormed her
\n> house and detained her in a psychiatric hospital in March – for the second
\n> time.
\n>
\n> Also in March, freelance journalist and a member of the banned Bloc 8406
\n> pro-democracy movement Truong Minh Duc was given a five-year jail sentence
\n> on charges of „taking advantage of democratic rights to act against the
\n> state’s interests“ and „receiving money from abroad to support complaints
\n> against the state“, reports RSF. He often wrote about corruption and abuse
\n> of authorities for newspapers and websites in Vietnam and abroad.
\n>
\n> The Beijing Games has also been a flashpoint in Vietnam. According to RSF,
\n> a Vietnamese government website stated that Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
\n> had called for „absolute security“ during the Olympic torch relay in Ho
\n> Chi
\n> Minh City and warned against „hostile forces“ that were ready to disturb
\n> the peace.
\n>
\n> A leading blogger who posted entries on his blog about worldwide
\n> demonstrations against the Olympics was kept under close police
\n> surveillance and arrested just days before the Ho Chi Minh leg of the
\n> relay
\n> for taking part in protests against Chinese policy, reports RSF. Nguyen
\n> Hoang Hai, better known by his blogging pseudonym of Dieu Cay, was charged
\n> with tax fraud, „just a pretext to prevent one of Vietnam’s most
\n> influential bloggers from continuing to post comments critical of the
\n> government,“ RSF says.
\n>
\n> And U.S. journalist Le Hong Thien was seized by security police in Ho Chi
\n> Minh City while covering the torch relay itself, says RSF. Thien is the
\n> editor of the US-based magazine „Gia Dinh“, a reporter on the „Viet Times
\n> Weekly“, and contributor to Radio New Horizon. He is currently under house
\n> arrest at his brother’s home and his passport has been confiscated. He has
\n> not yet been charged.
\n>
\n> According to RSF, at least nine journalists and cyber-dissidents are
\n> currently in prison in Vietnam.
\n>
\n> Visit these links:
\n> – SEAPA: http:\/\/www.seapabkk.org\/
\n> – RSF on Dieu Cay: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/48j34z
\n> – RSF on Nguyen Van Hai, Nguyen Viet Chen and Le Hong Thien:
\n> http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=27023
\n> – RSF on Truong Minh Duc: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4hezgj
\n> – CPJ: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4wyxxj
\n> – WiPC: http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/93095\/
\n> – IFEX Vietnam page: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3swwm3
\n> – Vietnam.net: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3pbkq3
\n> – AP via ABC News: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3zyuy3
\n> ——————————————————–
\n> REGIONAL NEWS
\n>
\n> AFRICA
\n>
\n> 2. BURUNDI: PUBLIC BROADCASTER EMPLOYEES ATTACKED
\n>
\n> IFEX members Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the International
\n> Federation of Journalists (IFJ) are calling on the Burundi government to
\n> investigate two separate attacks last week that killed one employee of the
\n> country’s public broadcaster and left another staff member wounded.
\n>
\n> C\u00e9cile Ndikumana, a sales agent with Radio-T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Nationale du
\n> Burundi
\n> (RTNB), was killed by gunmen in the capital city Bujumbura while on her
\n> way
\n> home with her husband on 12 May. Ndikumana died instantly and her husband
\n> received non-life-threatening injuries.
\n>
\n> The same evening, cameraman Hilaire Minani was with a neighbour in
\n> Bujumbura when two gunmen attacked them, demanding their money and mobile
\n> phones. Minani was wounded on the head and his friend was shot dead.
\n>
\n> IFJ is calling for a thorough investigation into the two attacks, as well
\n> as improvement in the working conditions of RTNB journalists and media
\n> workers. Union members have been on strike since 28 April in protest over
\n> the failure to implement a collective bargaining agreement signed in
\n> December.
\n>
\n> There has been a wave of violence in the Burundian capital in recent weeks
\n> since clashes resumed between the army and rebels of the Forces nationales
\n> de lib\u00e9ration (FNL), the last active, armed movement in Burundi. At least
\n> 20,000 people have fled their homes, says UN humanitarian news and
\n> analysis
\n> service IRIN.
\n>
\n> Visit these links:
\n> – RSF: http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=26967
\n> – IFJ: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6ze6n5
\n> – IRIN: http:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/Report.aspx?ReportId=78129
\n>
\n> EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
\n>
\n> 3. FRANCE: BILL ON PROTECTING JOURNALISTS‘ SOURCES DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH,
\n> SAYS RSF
\n>
\n> The French government introduced a bill last week that says reporters may
\n> have to reveal their sources when „a pressing imperative requires it“ –
\n> wording that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and other press freedom
\n> organisations say is too vague.
\n>
\n> Cases involving terrorism or the kidnapping of a child may qualify under
\n> the law as times when journalists in France may have to reveal sources.
\n>
\n> RSF has criticised the bill, saying that it does not offer sufficient
\n> protection to media professionals. The bill „leaves too much to the
\n> interpretation of investigators who alone can assess whether a ‚pressing
\n> imperative of public interest‘ justifies an attack on the protection of
\n> sources,“ says RSF.
\n>
\n> According to news reports, the bill came after Guillaume Dasqui\u00e9, a
\n> journalist for „Le Monde“, was accused in December of publishing state
\n> secrets when he wrote an article quoting classified reports that French
\n> intelligence services knew of some Al-Qaeda plans before the 11 September
\n> 2001 attacks. Dasqui\u00e9 has refused to name the person who gave him the
\n> information.
\n>
\n> Justice Minister Rachida Dati argued the new legislation promised by
\n> President Nicholas Sarkozy during his election last year struck a balance
\n> between the rights of journalists and the needs of police and security
\n> forces.
\n>
\n> But RSF says a protection of sources law should offer a broader definition
\n> of the people allowed to withhold their sources of information, and that
\n> journalists should have the right to oppose the seizure of any kind of
\n> equipment they use to collect and impart information. See all of RSF’s
\n> recommendations at: http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=27024
\n>
\n> Debate on the bill opened in parliament as Sarkozy and his governing party
\n> faced criticism for accusing the French media of bias. Sarkozy complained
\n> during a meeting with deputies from his party earlier this month that
\n> several French media, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), „le Parisien“
\n> and „l’Express“, had failed to properly cover a court decision against his
\n> defeated Socialist rival, S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne Royal.
\n>
\n> „As a candidate, Sarkozy assured us that he believed the media are a key
\n> element of democratic life, but he seems to have forgotten these
\n> principles
\n> as a President and he doesn’t hesitate to cry ‚censorship‘ when media do
\n> not report the news to his liking. We are outraged by his behaviour,“ says
\n> the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the regional group of the
\n> International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
\n>
\n> EFJ says that Sarkozy’s statements, together with the draft law on
\n> protection of sources and his plans to strip advertising revenue from
\n> public broadcasters, are „a shocking way to defend press freedom in
\n> France,“ and do not bode well so soon after the presidential elections.
\n>
\n> Visit these links:
\n> – RSF: http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=27024
\n> – IFJ\/EFJ: http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/93662\/
\n> – IFEX France page: http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/en\/content\/view\/full\/197\/
\n> – AFP via France24.com: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6m6fw7
\n> – Privacy International’s Global Survey on Protection of Journalists‘
\n> Sources: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5xrk4w
\n>
\n> 4. UZBEKISTAN: THREE YEARS ON FROM ANDIJAN, INDEPENDENT PRESS STILL
\n> STRANGLED
\n>
\n> Three years after civilians were killed by Uzbek security forces in the
\n> city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, the government continues to persecute
\n> journalists, activists and human rights defenders who spoke out against
\n> the
\n> massacre, say the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Human Rights
\n> Watch.
\n>
\n> According to CPJ, five journalists are still in jail for their reporting
\n> of
\n> Andijan. They are serving sentences ranging from five to 15 years on
\n> „trumped-up charges“ – from embezzling funds to participating in
\n> anti-constitutional activities.
\n>
\n> One such journalist is the President’s nephew, Dzamshid Karimov. Karimov,
\n> a
\n> former correspondent for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
\n> disappeared in September 2006 only to be discovered in a psychiatric
\n> hospital in the city of Samarkand. He is still being held incommunicado.
\n>
\n> Other reporters – and their families – have been subjected to harassment
\n> and surveillance by security services, their movements and reporting
\n> ability hampered. According to CPJ, the authorities have circulated an
\n> „unofficial“ list of topics on which the media is forbidden to report –
\n> from the massacre and other human rights abuses, to the President and
\n> opposition party activities.
\n>
\n> Dozens of journalists and activists have fled the country for fear of
\n> their
\n> safety. Several refugees who returned to Uzbekistan – only to flee again –
\n> told Human Rights Watch they had been subjected to repeated interrogations
\n> upon their return, and forced to sign false confessions or statements
\n> supporting the government’s version of the May 2005 events. Kyrgyzstan,
\n> Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Russia have all flouted their international
\n> obligations and forcibly returned refugees and asylum seekers to
\n> Uzbekistan, often at Tashkent’s request.
\n>
\n> Meanwhile, foreign journalists have had their accreditation revoked and
\n> have been chased out of the country. In 2007, at least two correspondents
\n> of German news agency „Deutsche Welle“ were forced to leave Uzbekistan
\n> after enduring harassment by tax police and Tashkent prosecutors, says
\n> CPJ.
\n>
\n> The handful of local independent journalists who have remained in
\n> Uzbekistan now report only clandestinely; most do so under pseudonyms,
\n> says
\n> CPJ. The restrictions have „all but eliminated the independent press in
\n> the
\n> country,“ regional journalists and media experts told CPJ.
\n>
\n> The Andijan massacre took place three years ago on 13 May 2005, when
\n> government troops indiscriminately shot dead hundreds of civilians
\n> protesting against President Karimov’s regime. Despite calls for an
\n> independent investigation into the events of 13 May, the Uzbek government
\n> has refused to allow an investigation to take place and has held no one
\n> accountable for the massacre.
\n>
\n> Human rights defender Mutabar Tojibaeva, who is currently serving an
\n> eight-year prison sentence for her outspoken criticism of the government
\n> following the massacre, has been selected to receive this year’s Martin
\n> Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, a prize given by Human Rights
\n> Watch and nine other leading human rights organisations.
\n>
\n> In October 2005, Tojibaeva was arrested in her home as she was preparing
\n> to
\n> travel to a human rights conference in Ireland. She was charged with 17
\n> counts of criminal activity, including slander, extortion, tax evasion,
\n> polluting the environment and membership in an illegal organisation – her
\n> own unregistered NGO. Yet, despite the threat of a long prison sentence,
\n> Tojibaeva remained defiant and told the court, „I do not regret my
\n> activities and I will continue them regardless of the verdict.“
\n>
\n> Tojibaeva was recently diagnosed with cancer and her health is
\n> deteriorating. The Martin Ennals jury is calling for her immediate
\n> release.
\n>
\n> Human Rights Watch is urging the U.S. and the EU to act urgently to help
\n> stop the crackdown in Uzbekistan. The release of human rights defenders
\n> was
\n> among the criteria that the EU set for reviewing the sanctions it imposed
\n> on Tashkent in October 2005 following the Andijan massacre. Over the past
\n> two years, the EU has incrementally weakened the sanctions, consisting
\n> mostly of an arms embargo and a visa ban for government officials, despite
\n> the Uzbek government’s persistent defiance to heed the criteria. On 29
\n> April, the EU for the second time in a row suspended the visa ban
\n> altogether for six months.
\n>
\n> Visit these links:
\n> – CPJ: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4djk2e
\n> – Human Rights Watch Uzbekistan page: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4gotxf
\n> – Human Rights Watch report, „Saving its Secrets: Government Repression in
\n> Andijan“: http:\/\/hrw.org\/reports\/2008\/uzbekistan0508\/
\n> – Martin Ennals Award: http:\/\/www.martinennalsaward.org\/
\n> ——————————————————–
\n> REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
\n>
\n> 5. IRAQI KURDISTAN NO LONGER THE BASTION OF PRESS FREEDOM, CPJ FINDS
\n>
\n> As a contributor to Kurdistanpost, a popular Kurdish news website, Nasseh
\n> Abdel Raheem Rashid has railed against the actions of crooked politicians
\n> in Iraqi Kurdistan. It was only a matter of time before Rashid’s criticism
\n> would get him noticed. As he walked through the market of his hometown
\n> Halabja last October, four armed men in military garb forced him into a
\n> pickup, bound him up and covered his head with a sack. He was then dropped
\n> off at an unknown location, but not before being beaten and threatened at
\n> gunpoint to stop working or be killed.
\n>
\n> The image of Iraqi Kurdistan as a place of freedom and tolerance following
\n> the 1991 Gulf War is being severely tarnished by a disturbing rise in
\n> attacks on journalists like the assault on Rashid over the past three
\n> years
\n> – often at the hands of officials, says „The Other Iraq“, a new report by
\n> the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
\n>
\n> The mountainous region in northern Iraq is home to a „small but combative
\n> independent press“ that regularly challenges the region’s main parties by
\n> publishing bold stories about government corruption and human rights
\n> abuses, says CPJ.
\n>
\n> But their increasing presence on the media scene has triggered a spike in
\n> assaults, detentions and prosecutions of journalists, with the most
\n> forceful attacks targeting those who have reported critically on
\n> high-ranking officials like the head of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)
\n> Masoud Barzani and fellow Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani – Iraq’s
\n> President.
\n>
\n> In a meeting with Barzani last November, a CPJ delegation urged him to
\n> publicly investigate the spate of violent acts of aggression against the
\n> press.
\n>
\n> Barzani bemoaned what he called the lack of professionalism in the
\n> fledgling industry but said it would be „intolerable“ for a journalist to
\n> be attacked over a free expression issue. „The security forces (are)
\n> interested in terrorism – that is their main objective,“ he said.
\n>
\n> CPJ also expressed concern about restrictive press legislation passed by
\n> the Kurdistan parliament late last year but vetoed by Barzani. The bill
\n> would have allowed the government to impose heavy fines and close
\n> newspapers. CPJ told Barzani that parliament has an opportunity to devise
\n> model press legislation for the region by eliminating criminal defamation,
\n> jail sentences for journalists, and other provisions that violate
\n> international standards.
\n>
\n> „The Other Iraq“, available in English, Kurdish and Arabic, is based on a
\n> two-week fact-finding mission to Arbil and Sulaymania last November. Read
\n> it here: http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/other.iraq\/index.html
\n>
\n> Also read a front-line take on covering war in „The Biggest Story“, which
\n> includes interviews with veteran journalists in Iraq. Both reports are
\n> available in the latest edition of CPJ’s „Dangerous Assignments“,
\n> available
\n> in PDF here: http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/Briefings\/2008\/DA_spring_08.pdf
\n>
\n> 6. POLITICIANS THE MAIN PERPETRATOR OF ATTACKS ON PRESS IN ROMANIA, SAYS
\n> REPORT
\n>
\n> Romanian President Traian Băsescu was the „undisputed champion“ of
\n> insults and attacks against journalists in 2007, says a new report by
\n> Romania’s Media Monitoring Agency (MMA).
\n>
\n> Although attacks and threats against journalists didn’t increase from
\n> 2006,
\n> many of their perpetrators were top level politicians, says MMA. In one
\n> incident, Băsescu grabbed the phone of a journalist who was filming
\n> him with her phone. Unbeknownst to the President, the phone was still
\n> recording, and taped him calling the journalist a „dirty gypsy“ in a
\n> private conversation with his wife.
\n>
\n> „Such gestures are a threat to all journalists given the message they
\n> send,“ says MMA, and were reflected at all levels of government: instances
\n> of local authorities offending journalists or illegally suspending their
\n> accreditation as punishment for their critical articles were common in
\n> 2007.
\n>
\n> >From political pressures imposed on public radio and television to the
\n> lax
\n> implementation of access to info laws, „Press Freedom in Romania 2007“
\n> covers the most important freedom of expression issues and challenges in
\n> Romania last year. It’s available here: http:\/\/www.mma.ro\/
\n> ——————————————————–
\n> AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
\n>
\n> 7. TURKISH PUBLISHER WINS IPA’S FREEDOM TO PUBLISH PRIZE
\n>
\n> A Turkish publisher who refused to abandon his campaign for freedom of
\n> thought – despite being given a three-year jail sentence – is this year’s
\n> winner of the International Publishers‘ Association (IPA) Freedom to
\n> Publish Prize.
\n>
\n> Since starting his publishing house Belge with his wife Ayse Nur in 1977,
\n> Ragip Zarakolu has been constantly at the receiving end of the wrath of
\n> the
\n> Turkish authorities. The charges they brought against him and Nur resulted
\n> in jail time for the couple, confiscation and destruction of books, and
\n> the
\n> imposition of heavy fines, endangering the survival of Belge. But Zarakolu
\n> refused to give up his campaign for free expression, saying he fought „for
\n> an attitude of respect for different thoughts and cultures to become
\n> widespread in Turkey.“
\n>
\n> The Freedom to Publish Prize honours a person or an organisation that has
\n> made an important contribution to the defence and promotion of freedom to
\n> publish anywhere in the world. This year, the prize, worth 5,000 Swiss
\n> Francs (US$4,800), will be presented to Zarakolu at the International
\n> Seminar on Neo-Censorship in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in September.
\n>
\n> For more details, see: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/5lell6
\n>
\n> 8. ENTRIES WANTED FOR BASTIAT PRIZE
\n>
\n> Journalists from around the world are invited to apply for the 2008
\n> Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastiat Prize, which honours work that promotes the principles
\n> of
\n> a free society with eloquence and wit. The deadline for entries is 30 June
\n> 2008.
\n>
\n> The award, administered by the U.K.-based International Policy Network, is
\n> named in honour of the 19th century liberal French satirist and advocate
\n> of
\n> civil liberties. A US$15,000 prize will be split among first, second and
\n> third place winners.
\n>
\n> Entries, which should take the form of one or more published articles, are
\n> judged according to their intellectual content, the persuasiveness of the
\n> language and the type of publication in which they appeared. Articles must
\n> be in English and should not exceed 4,500 words.
\n>
\n> Full contest rules and forms can be requested by emailing: info (@)
\n> bastiatprize (.) org or found at: http:\/\/www.bastiatprize.org
\n> ——————————————————–
\n> TOOLS AND RESOURCES
\n>
\n> 9. FREEDOM HOUSE DELIVERS INTERNET FREEDOM ALERTS TO YOUR INBOX
\n>
\n> Who are the latest bloggers to go to jail for their work? Which country is
\n> the worst at blocking Internet sites? How can you circumvent the censors?
\n>
\n> Subscribe to „Internet Freedom Alert“, a new publication of Freedom
\n> House’s
\n> Global Internet Program, to get the latest on online developments relating
\n> to censorship, Internet governance and freedoms online.
\n>
\n> In the most recent issue (4 April to 19 May), read about Egypt’s Facebook
\n> revolution, a Syrian blogger who got three years in jail for undermining
\n> states, or how China, who leads the world in web censorship, relaxed its
\n> grip on the Internet and the media after the quake.
\n>
\n> Also find out which events are happening in your neighbourhood, such as
\n> the
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