Petition to release two U.S. journalists held in North Korea

Reporters Without Borders 2009

Reporters Without Borders and the International Media Women’s Foundation are collecting signatures to release American reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee held unjustifiably and unjustly in North Korea.

To read more about this situation go to:

http://www.rsf.org/American-reporters-get-very-severe.html

To sign the petition go to:

http://www.iwmf.org/subcatdetail.aspx?sc=letter#commentblock

Wounded photographer

This photograph won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for best breaking news photograph.

Awarded to Adrees Latif of Reuters for his dramatic photograph of a Japanese videographer, sprawled on the pavement, fatally wounded during a street demonstration in Myanmar.

Pulitzer webpage

Professors Protest `Political Censorship’

Source: The Korean Times
By Park Si-soo

A group of professors opposing President Lee Myung-bak’s cross-country canal project condemned the government for putting what they call clandestine censorship on anti-canal campaigners.

China blocks YouTube

BEIJING (AP) — Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular American video Web site.

Celebrate the first Online Free Expression Day!

Source: Reporters without Borders

Reporters Without Borders will launch the first International Online Free Expression Day under UNESCO’s patronage on 12 March, when it will also organise its second “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship,” urging Internet users to come and demonstrate on its website, www.rsf.org.