já que isto é um blog como qualquer outro, o marco jacinto virá concerteza a terreno defender a minha liberdade:
jornalistas presos em cuba por um regime de filhos da puta, segundo os repórteres sem fronteiras (certamente manipulados por um perigoso grupo económico) e a posição dos mesmos repórteres sem fronteiras sobre o fecho da rctv por outro filho da puta:
Updated information on imprisoned Cuban journalistsIn Cuba, any journalist who does not work for the official media is considered to be an “enemy of the state” or a “mercenary”. The changeover at the summit of the state between the Castro brothers and the promises made by Cuba in relation to human rights at the Non-Aligned Summit in Havana have unfortunately done nothing to alter this state of affairs.
There are currently 24 of them who have paid with their freedom for having founded an independent news agency, written for a dissident review or spoken to a media in the Cuban diaspora. Some are serving prison sentences of 14-27 years. Others are being held without trial. Another, despite being put on trial, has never been told what his sentence was. All of them however suffer the same overcrowding, appalling prison conditions and mistreatment from the prison authorities that are the lot of more than 300 prisoners of opinion on the island.
In 2006, Cuba is still the second biggest prison in the world for journalists after China. Three years ago it was the first, following an unprecedented crackdown which saw the arrest of 27 journalists, speedily tried and sentenced for alleged collaboration with the United States against “Cuba’s economy and national independence” under the terms of the 88 law or “gagging law”. Seven of these journalists who were victims of the “black spring” have since had their sentences suspended for health reasons, including Raúl Rivero and Manuel Vázquez Portal who have both gone into exile abroad.
For all that, the regime has never loosened its grip on the independent press. The daily experience of dissident journalists is of harassment, summonses and sudden periods in the custody of State Security (the political police). Three were arrested in 2005 and a fourth in May 2006. The “justice system” has never formally charged them.
Reporters Without Borders is appealing for people to sign a petition calling for the release of Cuba’s 24 imprisoned journalists.
Report of fact-finding trip to Venezuela : "Closure of Radio Caracas Televisión consolidates media hegemony"Reporters Without Borders today releases a report of a fact-finding trip it made to Venezuela from 24 to 28 May to examine the impact of the closure of Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), the country’s most popular television station.
RCTV’s 53 years in broadcasting came to end at midnight on 27 May, five months after President Hugo Chávez announced that its licence would not be renewed because it had supported the coup that briefly ousted him in April 2002.
Widely condemned abroad, RCTV’s closure was much more than just an administrative measure. It was a political move without precedent in Latin America, a key element in a government takeover of the broadcast media that is part of a determined effort to control and occupy the entire public arena.
Reporters Without Borders went to Venezuela to assess the consequences of this event on press freedom and free expression in the country, meeting with media owners, journalists, NGO representatives and political analysts. It also spent RCTV’s last day on the air at the commercial broadcaster’s headquarters.
The press freedom organisation found that the decisions to close RCTV and transfer its terrestrial broadcast channel to a new public TV station, Televisora Venezolana Social (Tves), were conducted outside of all regular legal channels and in defiance of the jurisprudence established by the Organisation of American States, to which Venezuela belongs.
Reporters Without Borders intends to refer this matter to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Council of Europe.
