Demonstrators organized by several groups, including Reporters Without Borders, hold banners during a demonstration to protest human rights abuses in Iran, outside Spain's Foreign Ministry in central Madrid, Friday, June 19, 2009. Protesters carried banners reading, 'Where is my vote?' and 'For a secular Iran' and 'Human rights for Iran'. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago

Demonstrators organized by several groups, including Reporters Without Borders, hold banners during a demonstration to protest human rights abuses in Iran, outside Spain's Foreign Ministry in central Madrid, Friday, June 19, 2009. Protesters carried banners reading, 'Where is my vote?' and 'For a secular Iran' and 'Human rights for Iran'.

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  1. Sri Lankan prison officials escort Tamil journalist J. S. Tissainayagam (C) to a prison bus on August 31, 2009. On the same day Tissainayagam, 45, was sentenced by Sri Lanka's High Court to 20 years in prison for causing 'racial hatred' and 'supporting terrorism,' he was also named the first winner of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. Tissainayagam was selected for the Peter Mackler Award, named for a 30-year veteran of Agence France-Presse who died last year, by the US branch of Reporters Without Borders RSF and Global Media Forum (GMF), a company founded by Mackler to train journalists and non-profit organizations to use the media as a tool for social change.

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  4. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) listens to a speech by Robert Menard, former Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders (L) during a conference entitled ' Peace, Democracy and Human Rights in Asia� held under the auspices of former Czech president Vaclav Havel in Prague on September 11, 2009, Other guests of this conference are Rabiya Kadeer, head of the World Uighur Congress , former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk and others philosophers and disidents.
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