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

Journalist under sentence of death in Mazar-i-Sharif is “in constant danger,” says brother

Source: Reporters without Borders

Afghan journalist Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi gave a news conference today at Reporters Without Borders headquarters in Paris about the plight of his brother, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, a fellow journalist who is under sentence of death in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.

The story of Abed Tavancheh

Source: Reporters Without Borders

Blogger Abed Tavancheh released on bail
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release on bail, on 11 July 2006, of blogger Abed Tavancheh. Bail was set at 50 millions tomans (about 50,000 euros). He is due to go on trial shortly, but the date of the hearing has yet to be fixed. The blogger was arrested on 26 May at Teheran University where he is a student, during demonstrations which led to clashes between young democrats and the Basij militia – students who are controlled by the authorities.

Montreal journalism student held in Iran freed

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Source: AFP

An Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said.