World Press Freedom Day
2006-05-03 09:27
Cape Town - More than 500 publishers and journalists were arrested, jailed and persecuted in 2005, and The World Association of Newspapers believes that each and every one of these courageous men and women deserves your attention.
Today, on World Press Freedom Day, News24 highlights some of the abuses these journalists have received.
Features:
A tribute to U Win Tin
"In Burma, we have to praise U Win Tin in secret whenever we receive news about him."
Another black spring
"In Cuba, World Press Freedom Day can only be celebrated with dignity in the cells of the 300 prisons scattered across the map of the small Caribbean isle."
Never a prisoner
"I have never felt like a prisoner when I have been behind bars. You can be in prison without being a prisoner; the real prisoners are those who jail journalists whose only crime is to inform or to express an opinion."
The Enigma of the Al-Darrat Case
"The Al-Darrat case is indicative of the fate of any prisoner of conscience who has been forgotten by world opinion."
Wife of Akbar Ganji shares triumph, anguish
"When Ganji went on hunger strike last May it hurt us a lot as a family. We were worried he would die. It was really difficult time, but with the help of God it is over."