Each year on World Day Against Cyber Censorship , Google and Reporters Without Borders join together to celebrate and hand out a prize for defending online freedom. This year, we’ll be gathering in Paris on March 12 to debate the issue of cyberfreedom and name our annual Netizen of the Year . Iranian cyberfeminists . Last year, it went to Nawaat , a group blog run by independent Tunisian bloggers. The nominees for the Netizen Award 2012 are:Leonardo Sakamoto, Brazil : Journalist and professor, Sakamoto covered East Timor's war of independence and Angola's civil war. On his blog, he investigates the plight of Indian minorities in the Amazon.Wukan, China : The village of Wukan (13,000 inhabitants) in Southern China was the scene of a violent revolt last December. Village inhabitants used the Internet and social network Weibo to mobilise public opinion.Maikel Nabil Sanad, Egyp t: This blogger denounced abuses by the army during the popular protests of spring 2011 and was imprisoned in post-revolutionary Egypt. Grigory Melkonyants, Russia : Melkonyant’s KartaNarusheniy.ru publishes an interactive map illustrating irregularities in Russian election campaigns. It allows users to locate and report fraud by posting photos, videos or audio recordings.Media Centers Local Coordinating Committee, Syria : Groups of citizen journalists collect and disseminate, in real time, information and images of Syria's uprising. Paulus Le Van Son, Vietnam : Le Van Son is a 26-year old blogger covers religious and human rights issues. After he reported on anti-Chinese protests and police violence, he was arrested on August 3, 2011, in Hanoi.Posted by William Echikson, Head of Free Expression, Europe, Middle East and Africa
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