[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 153 (Thursday, November 17, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Pages S13148-S13151]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SUPPORT FOR JAILED JOURNALISTS DAY
Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, today is ``action day'' to support jailed
journalists around the world, as declared by the independent
organization, Reporters Without Borders. I rise today to express my
support for this cause and to emphasize that our country has long
believed that a free press is a cornerstone of democracy, both here and
abroad. Last year, at my urging, Congress created a free press
institute at the National Endowment for Democracy to promote, as part
of our democracy-building efforts, free, independent and sustainable
news media organizations overseas. This year, I introduced the Free
Flow of Information Act to allow journalists in this country to protect
the identity of their confidential sources. After I introduced the
legislation, a reporter for one of America's most respected media
organizations, Judith Miller of the New York Times, was jailed for 85
days for failing to disclose a confidential source, while another, Matt
Cooper of Time magazine, was also threatened with jail for the same
reason. I believe that in order for the United States to foster the
spread of freedom and democracy globally, we must support an open and
free press at home.
According to Reporters Without Borders, 112 journalists are currently
jailed in 23 countries, including places like China, Cuba, Eritrea, and
Burma. This is not good company for the United States to keep. I urge
the administration and our diplomats overseas to do everything they can
to gain the release of these jailed journalists, who were doing nothing
more than trying to keep their fellow citizens informed. I ask
unanimous consent that the following information from Reporters Without
Borders be printed in the Record.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in
the Record, as follows:
16th Jailed Journalists' Support Day, Thursday, November 17, 2005.
Reporters Without Borders calls on the media to demonstrate
their solidarity with imprisoned journalists. We were
exceptionally active when journalists were being held hostage
in Iraq, and our challenges may seem less urgent now. But
that is not the case. A total of 186 media people (112
journalists, 3 assistants and 71 cyber-dissidents) are
imprisoned in 23 countries. What crimes have they committed?
They have revealed sensitive issue, called for democracy and
greater respect for individual freedoms, refused to give in
to censorship or to an enforced line of thought. In short,
they simply tried to do their jobs.
In an appeal for solidarity with imprisoned journalists,
Reporters Without Borders is organizing the 16th consecutive
annual day of action. We are urging the worldwide news media-
throughout the world-- to acknowledge the fate of those who
have to struggle every day for the right to report the news.
To break the silence concerning their plight and to bring
it to the public attention of the public, Reporters Without
Borders calls on the news media to highlight the case of an
imprisoned journalist on this year's ``action day'',
Thursday, November 17.
The jails of three countries alone are holding more than
half of the world's imprisoned journalists. The three
countries that constitute the world's biggest prisons traps
for the press are China (with 31 journalists behind bars),
Cuba (23), and Eritrea (13).
Mobilization is needed to ease the harsh reality of prison
conditions. Denied contact with their families and even
proper nourishment, most of these journalists live within
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poor or non-existent sanitary conditions. They are frequently
isolated from fellow prisoners and left to cope in terrible
isolation.
The purpose of this Day is above to free these journalists
from yet another prison, that of silence and oblivion. Unless
their cases are regularly brought before international public
the guilty governments will retain impunity. They will have
no reason to worry about the fate of prisoners in their
jails. Publicity thus becomes a sort of ``life insurance''
contributing directly to the protection of the prisoners.
It also allows a furtherance of the struggle begun by the
imprisoned journalists. Articles that media write about them
underscore the reasons and the circumstances of their arrest
as well as the issues the journalists were working on before
they were imprisoned. In speaking about their case, the
sponsor circumvents the censorship they suffered and exposes
the unfairness of their imprisonment.
A media's decision to cover the plight of a journalist
demonstrates its commitment to defend the right to freely
inform and to be informed. It allows journalists to show
their solidarity with colleagues with whom they share their
passion for a job that is so crucial to ensuring democracy.
Since this campaign was launched in 1989, more than 100
journalists have been sponsored by media all around the
world. Some media outlets decided to cover their plight
without endorsing one particular case. Almost half of them
have been released and in part as a result of the support
from their sponsors. Several journalists sponsored by
International media have been released like Fatimah Nisreen
(The Maldives) amnestied on 9 May 2005 or Raul Rivero (Cuba)
released on 30 November 2004.
On the day of their release, many journalists stressed the
value of not feeling ``utterly forgotten''. It gave them the
courage to continue to bear their imprisonment.
The struggle the news media undertake alongside Reporters
Without Borders to defend the existence of a free press is
not hopeless. Even when those steps appear to have been in
vain, we know that international backing for a prisoner
brings essential psychological support and often protects his
or her life. This achievement alone represents a victory over
authoritarianism and repression carried out by so many
governments.
Please find below:
--a few examples of cases of jailed journalists
--press freedom barometer--Key statistics
--the list of 112 journalists imprisoned worldwide (as of
November 2, October 2005)
--the list of the current sponsors
Yu Dongyue--CHINA
A journalist and art critic with the Liuyang News, he was
arrested on 23 May 1989 during student demonstrations in
Tienanmen Square in Beijing. He was convicted on 11 July that
year of ``sabotage'' and ``counter-revolutionary propaganda''
and jailed by the Beijing intermediate municipal court for 20
years, with five years deprivation of civil rights. His
sentence was cut by two years in March 2000 but he is not due
to be released until 21 May 2007. Yu is suffering from
psychological problems as a result of long spells in solitary
confinement.
Miguel Galvan Gutierrez--CUBA
Journalist with the independent news agency Havana Press,
he was accused of being ``a mercenary in the pay of a foreign
power'' and convicted to 26 years in jail. As with other
dissidents arrested at the time, his arrest reportedly came
after a long search of his home and seizure of papers and
equipment such as a typewriter, fax machine and phone. He
appeared last August before the prison disciplinary council
for sending information to Miami radio stations. He was then
put in solitary confinement, without electricity, and was not
allowed to use the phone.
His health has steadily worsened in prison. His frequent
spells in solitary confinement (73 days in his first 11
months) aggravated his ailments, including frequent diarrhea,
stomach and joint pains, swollen feet and a paralyzed arm
and, in April 2005, high fever, urinary problems and back
pain. He does not get the medicine he needs.
Win Tin--BURMA
Win Tin, one of the political mentors of Nobel Peace Prize
winner Aung San Suu Kyi, continues to serve his 20-year
prison sentence. He is regularly offered freedom in exchange
for a signed promise to give up all political activity. But
``Saya'' (Teacher), as his friends call him, has always
refused to cut such a deal and break his ties with the
National League for Democracy, which was cheated out of its
landslide victory at the 1990 general elections.
He was convicted of ``subversion'' and ``anti-government
propaganda.'' In 1996, he was held for five months in a dog-
kennel at Rangoon's Insein prison. He has since had two heart
attacks and lost most of his teeth. Now 75, he has been
shuttling back and forth between his cell and the spartan
prisoners' wing of Rangoon hospital for the past few years.
These days, Burma's military rulers treat him with a little
more respect and he now has his own cell. But he is still not
allowed to write anything.
Akbar Ganji--IRAN
This Iranian journalist with the reformist daily Sobh-e-
Emruz, Neshat and Asr-e-Azadegan was arrested on April 22,
2000 when he returned from a conference in Berlin that the
Iranian authorities considered ``anti-Islamic'' and ``anti-
revolutionary.'' In January 2001, he was sentenced to 10
years in jail and to banishment.
He had to answer 10 charges, based on complaints filed by
the ministry of intelligence, the police and a former
minister of intelligence. The prosecutor accused him of
``acting against national security'', ``circulating
propaganda against the Islamic system'', and ``insulting
religious figures.'' He was also accused of publishing
articles accusing senior officials of involvement in the
murder of regime opponents and intellectuals in 1998. In
May 2001, his sentence was reduced from 10 years to six
months. In July 2001, the Supreme Court increased it to 6
years.
Akbar Ganji was held in Evin prison in Tehran, where he was
able to continue reading and writing. But he was not able to
telephone his family or receive medical treatment despite
suffering from acute asthma. He began a hunger strike on June
11 and lost 44 kilos in the course of the next month. Akbar
Ganji finally calls off his hunger strike after more than 60
days. He was sent back to Evin prison in early September.
Pham Hong Son--VIETNAM
Medical doctor and local representative of a foreign
pharmaceutical company. He has been in prison since March
2002 for translating and posting online an article from the
local US embassy website called ``What is democracy?'' and an
essay called ``Encouraging signs for democracy in Vietnam.''
He had earlier written and posted on Vietnamese online
discussion groups several articles advocating democracy and
human rights.
He was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in June 2003 for
``spying,'' followed by three years of house arrest, by the
Hanoi People's Court. The prison sentence was reduced on
appeal to five years on 26 August that year.
He has a groin hernia which could kill him if he does have
an operation.
Dominique Makeli--RWANDA
Dominique Makeli, a Radio Rwanda commentator, has been in
prison in Rwanda since 18 September 1994. After being moved
several times, he is now in the main prison in Kigali.
The public prosecutor told Reporters Without Borders in
October 2001 that he was accused of ``incitement to genocide
in his reporting.'' He had reported on an apparition of the
Virgin Mary in Kibeho (west of Butare) in May 1994 and had
quoted her supposed words : ``The parent is in heaven.''
The prosecutor said people would have understood this as
divine support for President [Juvenal] Habyarimana and, by
extension, for the policy of exterminating Tutsis. Thiswas
disputed by Makeli and many witnesses. His case-file was sent
in August 2004 to a gacaca (a village court system revived by
the authorities).
Complete biographies of these journalists and others are
available upon request. Please contact Lucie Morillon,
Reporters Without Borders Washington Director, (202) 256-5613
or [email protected]
Press freedom key statistics as of November 2, 2005
Reporters Without Borders has been defending the public's
right to news and information for 20 years. It intervenes as
soon as possible when the freedom to inform and be informed
is under threat is at risk, or as soon as a journalist
somewhere in the world is imprisoned anywhere just for doing
their job. Journalists are still being routinely targeted
in more than half the world's countries represented at the
United Nations.
By paying for defense lawyers when to assist journalists
are tried at their trial, giving financial aid to the
families of murdered or imprisoned journalists who have been
killed or imprisoned, waging public- awareness campaigns and
taking care offering help to of journalists who are forced to
flee their country, Reporters Without Borders takes action
every day to combat censorship.
Press freedom barometer
Worldwide, more than 684 journalists have been killed since
1992.
More than 1,450 journalists were arrested, beaten,
threatened, kidnapped or otherwise harassed and more than 320
media were censored in 2004.
53 journalists have been killed since the start of 2005.
5 media assistants have lost their lives since the start of
2005.
73 journalists have been killed in Iraq in March 2003,
making it the deadliest war for the press since World War II.
Worldwide, 112 journalists and 3 media assistants are
currently in prison for doing their job.
71 cyber-dissidents are currently in prison, 62 of them in
China. 112 journalists are currently in prison just for
trying to report the news.
The jails of three countries alone are holding more than
half of the world's imprisoned journalists.
The three countries that constitute the world's biggest
prisons traps for the press are China (with 31 journalists
behind bars), Cuba (23), and Eritrea (13).
Their crimes? Revealing embarrassing facts, demanding more
respect for civil rights, or refusing to submit to censorship
or adopt a particular set of views. Physical and
psychological harassment, intimidation and permanent
surveillance are also used routine.
The 112 journalists imprisoned worldwide (as of November 2,
October 2005)
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Afghanistan (1): Ali Mohaqiq Nasab: sentenced to two years
in prison.
Algeria (1): Mohammed Benchicou: sentenced to two years in
prison.
Burma (6): Lazing La Htoi: arrested on July 27 July, 2004,
and still awaiting trial.
Ne Min: sentenced to 15 years.
Monywa Aung-Shin: sentenced to 7 years.
Than Win Lhaing: sentenced to 7 years.
Thaung Tun: sentenced to 8 years.
Win Tin: sentenced to 20 years.
China (31): Asia continues to be the world's most
repressive continent for journalists. In East Asia, China is
ranked 159th in the Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press
Freedom Index (October 20, 2005), making. That puts it among
one of the world's 10 worst countries. Some media have been
privatized, but the government's propaganda department is
watchful scrutinizing the media and the banned media has been
banned from covering dozens of sensitive subjects in the
course of the pover the last year. Crackdowns by the
authorities and violence against journalists by armed
groups prevent are keeping the media from expressing
themselves freely.
Ching Cheong: imprisoned in jail since April 22, 2005.
Still awaiting trial.
Tashi Gyaltsen, Lobsang Dhargay, Thoe Samden, Tsultrim
Phelgay, Jampel Gyatso: imprisoned since January 14, 2005.
Awaiting trial.
Shi Tao: sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Zhao Yan: awaiting trial.
Li Minying: sentenced to 6 years.
Yu Huafeng: sentenced to 8 years.
Zhang Wei: sentenced to 6 years.
Zuo Shangwen: sentenced to 5 years.
Ou Yan: his release date has yet to be announced. Although
he has already completed a 2-year prison sentence.
Wang Daqi: sentenced to 1 year in prison, he was not freed
after completing serving his sentence.
Lu Wanbin: arrested on December 22, 2001. Awaiting trial.
Ma Linhai: arrested on November 24, 2001. Awaiting trial.
Feng Daxun: he was never released after completing a 3-year
prison sentence.
Jiang Weiping: sentenced to 9 years.
Xu Zerong: sentenced to 13 years.
Li Jian: arrested in November 1999. No news about his
trial.
Zha Jianguo: sentenced to 9 years.
Gao Hongming: sentenced to 8 years.
Yu Tianxiang: sentenced to 10 years.
Gao Qinrong: sentenced to 13 years.
Qin Yongmin: sentenced to 12 years.
Fan Yingshang: sentenced to 15 years.
Zhang Yafei: sentenced to 11 years.
Hu Liping: sentenced to 10 years.
Yu Dongyue: sentenced to 20 years.
Chen Renjie and Lin Youping: sentenced to life imprisonment
in July 1983.
North Korea (1): There has been no news of Song Keum Chul
since he was jailed in 1996.
Cuba (24): 161st place in the Worldwide Press Freedom
Index. Two journalists have just joined the 21 others who
have been imprisoned since the March 2003 crackdown. One of
them, Oscar Mario Gonzalez Perez, is awaiting trial and faces
up to 20 years in prison under Law 88, which that protects
``Cuba's national independence and economy.''
Lamasiel Gutierrez Romero: sentenced to 7 months in prison.
Albert Santiago Du Bouchet Fernandez: sentenced to 1 year
in prison.
Normando Hernandez Gonzalez: sentenced to 25 years.
Omar Moises Ruiz Hernandez: sentenced to 18 years.
Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta: sentenced to 20 years.
Alejandro Gonzalez Raga: sentenced to 14 years.
Alfredo Felipe Fuentes: sentenced to 26 years.
Mijail Barzaga Lugo: sentenced to 15 years.
Mario Enrique Mayo Hernandez: sentenced to 20 years.
Pablo Pacheco Avila: sentenced to 20 years.
Fabio Prieto Llorente: sentenced to 20 years.
Adolfo Fernandez Sainz: sentenced to 15 years.
Hector Maseda Gutierrez: sentenced to 20 years.
Julio Cesar Galvez Rodriguez: sentenced to 15 years.
Alfredo Manuel Pulido Lopez: sentenced to 14 years.
Jose Ubaldo Izquierdo Hernandez: sentenced to 16 years.
Victor Rolando Arroyo Carmona: sentenced to 26 years.
Miguel Galvan Gutierrez: sentenced to 26 years.
Pedro Arguelles Moran: sentenced to 20 years.
Omar Rodriguez Saludes: sentenced to 27 years.
Jose Luis Garcia Paneque: sentenced to 24 years.
Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso: Reporters Without Borders
correspondent, sentenced to 20 years.
Ivan Hernandez Carrillo: sentenced to 25 years.
Egypt (1): Abd al-Munim Gamal al Din Abd al Munim has been
subject to serving out an indefinite internment order since
October 30, 1993.
Eritrea (13): 166th in the Worldwide Press Freedom Index-,
is a ``black hole'' country for news. Not one of the 13
journalists currently detained in custody has ever been given
a trial. So therefore, none has received an official
sentence.
Hamid Mohamed Said, Saleh Al Jezaeeri and Saidia Ahmed have
been in prison since February 2002.
Seyoum Tsehaye, jailed since September 21, 2001.
Temesgen Gebreyesus and Said Abdulkader, since September
20, 2001.
Mattewos Habteab and Yusuf Mohamed Ali, since September 19,
2001.
Medhanie Haile, Emanuel Asrat, Dawit Isaac and Fessehaye
Yohannes, since September 18, 2001.
Dawit Habtemichael, since September 2001.
Ethiopia (2): Neither of the two imprisoned journalists
have been tried, and so neither of them have been officially
sentenced.
Shiferraw Insermu and Dhabassa Wakjira: imprisoned
prisoners since 22 April 2004.
Iraq (5): Five journalists are being held incommunicado by
the US Army without any information being provided to them.
Hameed Majeed: detained since September 15, 2005.
Ali Omar Abrahem Al-Mashadani: detained since August 8,
2005.
Samer Mohamed Noor: imprisoned behind bars since June 4,
2005.
Ammar Daham Naef Khalaf: detained since April 11, 2005.
Abdel Amir Younes Hussein: in prison since April 5, 2005.
Iran (6): Mohammad Sedigh Kabovand: sentenced to 18 months.
Madh Amadi: awaiting trial, in prison since July 28, 2005.
Masoud Bastani: awaiting trial, in prison since July 25,
2005.
Siamak Pourzand: sentenced to 11 years in prison. Thanks to
international pressure, he was given leave to return home for
an indefinite period in December 2002, but was sent back to
prison on March 30, 2003.
Hossein Ghazian: sentenced to four-and-a-half years in
prison.
Akbar Ganji: sentenced to 6 years in prison.
Laos (1): Thongpaseuth Keuakoun was sentenced to 20 years
in prison.
Libya (1): Abdullah Ali Al-Sanussi Al-Darrat has been in
prison since January 1, 1973 and, is by all accounts, has yet
to have been sentenced.
Maldives (3): Jennifer Latheef: sentenced to 10 years in
prison.
Colonel Mohammed Nasheed: awaiting trial.
Abdullah Saeed: awaiting trial.
Morocco (2): Anas Tadili: sentenced to 10 months in prison
on a non-political charge dating back 10 years, and then was
given an additional 6 months in a press case. The sentences
were commuted to 1 year on appeal (on September 29, 2004) to
one year. The Judicial authorities are investigating some 10
other accusations that have been brought against him.
Abderrahmane El Badraoui: sentenced to 4 years.
Nepal (2): Nagendra Upadhyaya and Tejnarayan Sapkota:
detained under an anti-terrorist law, and awaiting trial.
Uzbekistan (4): Nosir Zokirov: sentenced on August 26, 2005
to 6 months in prison.
Sabirjon Yakubov: sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Jusuf Ruzimuradov: arrested on August 18, 1999. Sentenced
to 8 years in prison.
Mohammed Bekjanov: sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Rwanda (4): Father Guy Theunis: imprisoned since September
10, 2005, pending trial.
Jean-Leonard Rugambage: detained since September 7, 2005,
pending trial.
Tatiana Mukakibibi: detained since October 2, 1996. Has not
yet been tried.
Dominique Makeli: imprisoned since September 18, 1994. Not
yet been tried.
Sierra Leone (1): Paul Kamara: serving prison sentences
totalling 4 years (two year sentences).
Tunisia (1): Hamadi Jebali: sentenced on January 31, 1991
to 1 year in prison for defamation. Given an additional 16-
year sentence on August 28, 1992 for ``membership in an
illegal organization'' and ``wanting to change the nature of
the state.''
Turkey (2) Memik Horuz: sentenced to 15 years in prison on
June 13, 2002 to 15 years in prison.
Sinan Kara: sentenced to 9 months in prison.
Working together to advance the cause of press freedom.
Reporters Without Borders would like to thank the sponsors of
imprisoned journalists for all they have done and will
continue to do to achieve obtain the release of those they
have their adopted colleagues.
Since 1989, we have been inviting the French and
international news media to adopt journalists who are in
prison just for doing their jobs. On November 17, sponsors
are will be asked to take special initiatives specific
actions to pressure authorities for releasing of their
adopted journalists and to publicize their cases, so that
they will not be forgotten and so that the publicity affords
will offer them some protection from their jailers. By
writing to journalists in prison, contacting their families,
protesting to the relevant competent authorities, and getting
viewers, listeners, readers and Internet users interested in
their cases, the news organizations, festivals and city halls
who are sponsors can help Reporters Without Borders to
support these men and women whose only crime is was wanting
to reporting the news.
Thanks to the media that support a journalist:
93.3 Radio Quebec, Christian Action for the Abolition of
Torture and Executions (ACAT), AGEFI, Agencia Cover,
Agriculture Horizon,
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Alternatives Internationales, Amiens Metropole--JDA, Amina,
Antena 3 TV, Arte, Associacion de la Prensa de Cadiz, Assas/
IFP, Avaldoci-Union Web periodistas, Azur FM, Bel RTL
(French-language Belgian radio station), BFM, Cadena SER,
Cambio 16 Aldateka Hamasei, Espacio de Informacion General
(EIG), Cape Breton Post, Baden-Baden Press Club, Bordeaux
Press Club, Clermont-Ferrand Press Club, Lille Press Club,
Montpellier Press Club, Nimes Press Club, La Semaine de
Nimes, Press Club of Saint-Etienne and La Loire, UCPF,
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Club, Grenoble and Isere Press Club, Corriere Canadese, Coup
d'oeil/Vers l'avenir, Courrier International, Dernieres
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Pais, El Periodico de Catalunya, El Punt, El Siglo, En
Marche, Enjeux internationaux, Festival International du
Scoop et du Journalisme, Flair/L'Hebdo, France 2, France 3
sud Languedoc-Roussillon, France bleu pays d'Auvergne, France
Culture, France Info, France Inter, France Soir, Fun Radio,
Geneve Home Information (GHI), Grands Reportages,
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