See also: Google France Blog Reporters Without Borders counts 119 online activists around the globe who are jailed for expressing their views freely online.World Day Against Cyber-Censorship . Speakers at the event will include Reporters without Borders President Dominique Gerbaud; Google’s South, East, Middle East and Africa President, Carlo d'Asaro Biondo; Secretary General Jean-Francois Julliard; and Doctors Without Borders founder and former French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner.Iranian cyberfeminists behind the website Change for Equality .2011 Netizen Award Nominees Nawaat, Tunisia: Nawaat.org in 2004. It played a crucial role in the coverage of Tunisia’s recent social and political unrest.Ali Abduleman, Bahrain: Bahrain Online , a forum that gets more than 100,000 visitors a day despite being blocked within Bahrain.Jiew, Prachatal, Thailand: Prachatai , a Thai alternative news website. She has repeatedly been arrested and is currently being prosecuted on several charges under the criminal code and the Computer Crimes Act including defaming the royal family. She faces the possibility of up to 82 years in prison.Tan Zuoren, China: 64Tianwang human rights blog, Tan Zuoren is serving a five-year sentence on a charge of inciting subversion of state authority. The website’s editor Huang Qi is serving a three-year sentence. After the May 2008 earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan, Tan urged fellow netizens to come to the province to help document the plight of the families of the victims.Pham Hoang Minh, Vietnam / France: Pham Minh Hoang was arrested on August 13, 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City, where he was teaching at the Institute of Technology. He was formally charged on September 20 with “activities aimed at overthrowing the government” (article 79 of the criminal code) and membership of a “terrorist organisation” (the banned Viet Tan party).Natalia Radzina, Charter 97, Belarus: Charter 97 , a news website that covers cases of arrests, physical attacks and harassment involving traditional and online journalists and human rights activists She was arrested on December 20, 2010, one day after the recent presidential election. Charter 97’s founder, Oleg Bebenin, was found "hanged" in September.Posted by William Echikson, Head of Free Expression, Europe, Middle East and Africa
Thank you so much for your work of Recognising defenders of free expression online !!! We are also grateful of your nominating Pham Hoang Minh, Vietnam - a blogger who is in jail in Vietnam.
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