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The Cyber dissident
MIT2412www.bloggingatuwo.webs.comHanan Kamal Eldahry
Cyber-dissident• a professional journalist or citizen
journalist who posts news, information, or commentary on the internet that implies criticism of a government or regime.
Source: wikipedia
Orgnizations Offering a Community for Cyber-
dissidents
• Global Voices: globalvoicesonline.org• A leading participatory media news
room for voices from the developing world.• Goals:• Call Attention• Facilitate & enable new voices• Advocate for freedom of expression
Source: www.globalvoicesonline.org
Organizations Defending Journalists Worldwide
• Reporters Without Borders• http://www.rsf.org• Mission:• Defends• Fights• Gives Financial Aid• Works
Organizations Defending Journalists
Worldwide• Committee to Protect
Journalists• http://cpj.org• publicly reveals abuses
against the press • warns journalists and
news organizations
Why is press freedom
important?
Answer:
• Without a free press, few other human rights are attainable.
• It is a CORE right/freedom
2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors.
2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• 125 journalists in all behind bars on December 1, 2008
2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• CHINA-world’s #1 jailer of journalists
2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• Cuba, Burma, Eritrea, and Uzbekistan round out the top five jailers
2008 prison census: Online and in jail
• Forty-five of the journalists on CPJ's census are freelancers
SOURCE: http://cpj.org/reports/2008/12/cpjs-2008-prison-census-online-and-in-jail.php
Freedom Loving Countries
Source: Reporters without Borders
What do the Top 20 Freedom Loving Countries have in
common?
Answer:
• A parliamentary democratic system, and not being involved in any war.
China
• 24 of 28 jailed journalists worked online.• The leading human activist in China, Hu Jia
arrested
Cuba• the world's second
worst jailer• 21 writers and editors
in prison• Héctor Maseda
Gutiérrez- 65 is the oldest of those jailed in Cuba.
Burma• Third worst jailer• Holding 14
journalists.• Maung Thura
Middle East• Syria leads in cyber-
repression: #159• Egypt: #146• Abdel Karim
Suleiman, a 23 y.o. Egyptian blogger
• Isreal: #46th domestically and 149th outside its own territory
Iran• 166th on the list of Freedom
Loving Countries• Applies death penalty to Web
Crimes• Hossein Derakhshan• Kick started the countries
blogging revolution.• 34 year old Iranian Canadian• award-winning weblog, "Editor:
Myself" (http://hoder.com/weblog), which was started in September, 2001
Where does Canada Stand?
• #13 on the List of Freedom Loving Countries
• Aside from New Zealand and Canada, the first 20 positions are held by European countries.
United States• Holding photographer Ibrahim
Jassam without charge in Iraq
• Made CPJ's list of countries jailing journalists for the fifth consecutive year
• 36th domestically and 119th outside its own territory) and Israel (46th domestically and 149th outside its own territory
• As of Dec. 2008:The U.S. military still refusing to release him.
A decade of imprisonment
Trends• 2008 tally reflects
the second consecutive decline in the total number of jailed journalists
Trends
• Imprisonments rose significantly in 2001, after governments imposed sweeping national security laws in the wake of the 9/11
Trends
• Print and Internet journalists make up the bulk of the census
Trends• Most Common Charges:• charges unrelated to journalism• Violations of censorship rules• Criminal Defamation• charges of ethnic or religious insult.
Trends
• For the fifth consecutive Year the U.S. makes the list of countries jailing journalists
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