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15 Feb 2001
Reporters sans frontièrs (Reporters
without Borders) - RSF
RSF, Paris, France
Self-description:
"The organisation was founded in 1985 [...] to do everything in its
power to get journalists out of prison and to condemn attacks on press
freedom."
Site contents:
The Asia
section contains the description of recent incidents concerning
journalists and press freedom in China, Hong Kong, and other parts of
Asia. The 2000
Annual Report / Asia contains information on countries of that
continent. "[O]n 1 January 2000, Asia was the continent with the most
journalists in jail. Burma, where 13 media professionals are behind
bars, is the worldıs biggest prison for the press. Journalists are
also being held in China (9), Vietnam (4), Nepal (at least 3),
Pakistan (1) and South Korea (1)."
URL http://www.rsf.fr/
Link reported by: Rudolf Wagner (wagner@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de), forwarded by Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Corporate Info./Study/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: V.Useful