[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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     IFP, Avaldoci-Union Web periodistas, Azur FM, Bel RTL 
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     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, 
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     Nimes, Press Club of Saint-Etienne and La Loire, UCPF, 
     Strasbourg Press Club, Toulon Press Club, Pays Basque Press 
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     l'avenir, Vlan, VSD, www.expotimes.net, www.press-list.com, 
     Les Journalistes-ecrivains pour la Nature et l'Ecologie.

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