Fight For Your Rights, Defend Press Freedom.
Twenty-four journalists and 5 media assistants have been killed so far this year and 124 journalists, 4 media assistants and 66 cyber-dissidents are in prison around the world and 13 journalists are being held hostage in various countries.
The new Reporters Without Borders worldwide "predators of press freedom" list.
This list of 34 "predators" comprises men and women who directly attack journalists or order others to. Most are top political figures but militia chiefs, leaders of armed groups and drug-traffickers are also included.
This year, the presidents of Laos and Azerbaijan joined the list of these major enemies of press freedom, along with Mexican drug cartels who killed several journalists.
The king of Nepal and the country's Maoist leaders were taken off the list after the national ceasefire between the two sides and a return to peace.
The predators and their faces and biographies can be seen on the website www.rsf.org.
For the first time, Reporters Without Borders is offering, through Google Earth, a virtual view of the homes, palaces, and workplaces of most of them. Click here: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/874561/an/0/page/0#874561.
The Journalists Memorial in Bayeux (Normandy) was inaugurated on May 2 in the French town of Bayeux and Reporters Without Borders have built the first Journalists Memorial in Europe.
Its stones bear the names of the 1,889 journalists killed around the world since 1944.
Several dozen journalists are killed every year working in war zones.
Reporters Without Borders is trying to reduce this toll by offering them legal and informative tools (a Practical Guide, a Safety Charter and training courses) as well as safety equipment, including: - the loan of bulletproof jackets, helmets and personal distress beacons, as well as free first-aid kits.
- special cheap insurance for freelance journalists and a hotline for those in trouble (SOS Presse, available round the clock at (33) 1 4777-7414).
The website www.rsf.org is now in six languages (English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French and Persian)
The website www.rsf.org can now be read in Chinese. With nearly a year to go before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Reporters Without Borders wants to inform the Chinese people about the press freedom situation. China has 31 journalists and 51 cyber-dissidents in jail, making it the world's largest prison for defenders of freedom of expression.
The Arabic version of www.rsf.org also has new features and more content. The Middle East is the world's deadliest region for journalists because of the fighting in Iraq.
Reporters Without Borders is the first international human rights organization to open an office in the online virtual world Second Life, where visitors can find information about the organisation and press freedom in the world, as well as its latest publicity campaigns.
From May 3, they can also see there the photos and biographies of the 34 "predators of press freedom" named by the organisation. To find this office, type "Reporters sans frontières" in the Second Life search engine.
The new book of photographs "100 photos of the Cannes Film Festival for press freedom" will be available on 3 May, on sale everywhere for Euro 8.90, in aid of Reporters Without Borders.
It includes more than 100 pictures by the photographers who have recorded the event since 1946. Jean-Pierre Lavoignat, the longstanding editor of Studio Magazine, with present the book at the press conference. It is produced with support from the Film Festival.
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