Reporters Without Borders: In partnership with the French retail chain Fnac, Reporters Without Borders has awarded its 2010 Press Freedom Prize to two symbols of courage, the jailed Iranian journalist Abdolreza Tajik and the embattled Somali news radio station Radio Shabelle... “ This year we are honouring a courageous journalist, Abdolreza Tajik, and a beleaguered radio station, Radio Shabelle,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said... Jailed for the third time on 12 June of this year, Tajik is still detained. Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, the head of the Tehran-based Human Rights Defenders Centre, received the 2010 Journalist of the Year award on his behalf... Tajik was chosen for his reporting and his commitment to the defence of press freedom in Iran. A member of the Human Rights Defenders Centre and a determined free speech activist, he worked as political editor on many of the newspapers that have been closed by the authorities, such as Fateh (closed by the authorities in 2000), Bahar (closed in 2001), Bonyan (closed in 2002), Hambastegi (closed in 2003) and Shargh (closed in 2008). He often writes about free speech violations and arbitrary arrests of journalists >>>
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Divaneh
by statira on Sun Dec 12, 2010 08:10 PM PSTAbout Nilofar Parsi, Ma ye zarbolmasal toyeh Iran dareem ke migheh: Kafer hameh ra be keeshe khod pendarad. Nilofar herself is on IRI payroll and spying on others and thinks everybody does the same.
Every cloud has a silver lining...
by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sun Dec 12, 2010 09:56 AM PSTThe international publicity around our beloved compatriots in Islamist regime's torture chambers is the key for safeguarding their lives. I believe if was not for this tremendous publicity, a lot of these brave folks would have been murdered and burried in unnamed mass graves by now, as was the case 22 years ago.
"Personal business must yield to collective interest."
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by yolanda on Sun Dec 12, 2010 09:41 AM PSTEbadi said: “I regret that Abdolreza is not here to receive this award in person. His only crime has been to write, to write the truth. For doing that, he is being held in solitary confinement in Evin prison, without his lawyer being able to see him or have access to his case file. Abdolreza is a symbol of resistance in Iran, and he is not the only one. I hope he will be here next year to meet you.”
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I lost count of how many jailed people being awarded this year!
Where is Niloufar Parsi?
by divaneh on Sun Dec 12, 2010 09:19 AM PSTHere is one of those foreign agents on the payroll of the CIA. Would you like to add anyone else?