Members of French media watchdog Reporters Without Borders gather near the Iranian embassy in Paris, during a demonstration for press freedom in Iran, Thursday June 18, 2009 in Paris. Two riot policemen are seen standing guard rear right. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago

Members of French media watchdog Reporters Without Borders gather near the Iranian embassy in Paris, during a demonstration for press freedom in Iran, Thursday June 18, 2009 in Paris. Two riot policemen are seen standing guard rear right.

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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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  1. Robert Menard, former Secretary-General of Reporters Without Borders (L) listens to a speech by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) 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.
  2. Chinese people use computers at an internet bar in Beijing on September 30, 2009. Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said on September 29 that a 'paranoid' China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic.
  3. Chinese people use computers at an internet bar in Beijing on September 30, 2009. Press rights group Reporters Without Borders said on September 29 that a 'paranoid' China had blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic.
  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.
  5. 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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