World Press Freedom Day 2010
Amensty International USA memperingati Press Freedom Day 2010 (3 Mei)/ TAKE ACTION!
World Press Freedom Day (May 3) provides an opportunity for people around the world to celebrate the fundamental human right to freedom of expression, defend the media from attacks on their independence and honor the memory of journalists who have lost their lives because of the peaceful exercise of their right to speak and write freely.
Shi Tao
Shi Tao, a Chinese poet and journalist, is serving a ten-year prison sentence in China for sending an email to the U.S. According to a letter Amnesty International received from Yahoo! (YHOO), and Yahoo!'s own later public admissions, Yahoo! China provided account-holder information, in compliance with a government request, that led to Shi Tao's sentencing.
Mr. Shi was accused of "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities" after sending an email summarizing an internal Communist Party directive to a source in the US. The directive had warned Chinese journalists of possible social unrest during the anniversary of the June 4 Movement (in memory of the Tiananmen crackdown), and directed them not to fuel it via media reports. In addition to publicizing this government directive, Shi Tao had also written essays and articles highlighting issues around the pro-democracy movement, including an April 2004 essay criticizing the detention of Ding Zilin, founder of the Tiananmen Mothers organization which seeks information about what happened to victims of the 1989 crackdown.
Imprisoned for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression, a right entrenched in international law and the Chinese Constitution, Shi Tao is considered a Prisoner of Conscience.
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