7 July 2004

TAKE ACTION! BURMA: SIGN PETITION TO SUPPORT JAILED SPORTS JOURNALIST


Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has launched an online petition to support jailed Burmese journalist Zaw Thet Htwe. The editor of sports magazine "First Eleven," Zaw Thet Htwe was sentenced in May 2004 to three years in prison on spurious charges of "attempting to assassinate leaders of the military junta."

For more details on his case, visit: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/58945/

Sign the petition here:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=9089


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Also from the Communiqué, 7 July 2004

INTERNATIONAL: MISA, IFJ LOBBY FOR FREE EXPRESSION GUARANTEES AT AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT 7 July 2004 HONG KONG (CHINA): BEIJING TIGHTENS THE SCREWS 7 July 2004 HAITI: PRESS FREEDOM IMPROVING POST ARISTIDE 7 July 2004 POLAND: IFEX MEMBERS RAISE CONCERNS OVER LIBEL LAWS 7 July 2004 AZERBAIJAN: DEFAMATION CASE DROPPED AFTER WORLDWIDE OUTCRY 7 July 2004 GUATEMALA: OAS RAPPORTEUR MEETS WITH GUATEMALAN JOURNALISTS 7 July 2004 INTERNATIONAL: Rural Telephones: Africa's Challenge 7 July 2004 INTERNATIONAL: HAMBURG FOUNDATION FOR THE POLITICALLY PERSECUTED 7 July 2004

Burma

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Asia and Pacific

TIBET (CHINA): PEN American Center concerned over "virtual lockdown" on freedom of expression 9 February 2012 MALDIVES: New government must guarantee safety and rights of journalists 8 February 2012 SRI LANKA: FMM voices concern over allegations in "Dinamina" newspaper article 7 February 2012 INDIA: Danish journalists refused visas 7 February 2012 CHINA: Senior newspaper staff fired for reporting inflation concerns 6 February 2012


 
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