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History…
1893, born Dean Gooderham Acheson, American statesman, born in Middletown, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University and Harvard Law School. From 1919 to 1921, he was private secretary to Louis D. Brandeis, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1933 Acheson served as undersecretary of the treasury. He was assistant secretary of state (1941-1945) and undersecretary (1945-1947). In 1949 Acheson became secretary of state under President Harry S. Truman. Acheson continued the policies of his predecessor, George C. Marshall, most notably in the implementation of the European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan. He also represented the United States in the negotiations leading to the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba.
1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the notorious Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.
1951, U.S. president Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur from his commands during the Korean War after the general publicly criticized the administration's war policy.
1953, Oveta Culp Hobby became the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
1968, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
1970, Apollo 13 blasts off toward the moon; an explosion two days later forces astronauts to abort the mission and make a daring return to earth.
1979, Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control, during his brutal regime, an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed.
1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations specifically prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
Missing in Action
1965 SWANSON WILLIAM E. MINNEAPOLIS MN FLAK CRASH EXPLODE
1968 WHITTEMORE FREDERICK H. CARSON CITY NV
1970 NELSON JAN HOUSTON CLEARWATER FL
1971 BUERK WILLIAM CARL LOS ANGELES CA
Journalism at Risk
Authorities suspend licence of jailed journalists' lawyer
Country/Topic: China
Date: 01 March 2005
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Person(s): Shi Tao, Zhang Lin, Huang Jinqiu
Target(s): journalist(s) , web dissident(s)
Type(s) of violation(s): imprisoned
Urgency: Threat
(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:
CHINA: Authorities suspend license of lawyer for jailed journalists
New York, March 1, 2005 - Authorities in Shanghai have suspended the law license of Guo Guoting, defense attorney for three jailed journalists as well as a number of other dissidents and members of the Falun Gong religious sect. The suspension throws into question the defense of imprisoned writers Shi Tao, Zhang Lin and Huang Jinqiu.
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/65030/
IFJ Backs Iranian Journalists in Protest
Published: 2.03.2005
IFJ, Brussels, 01.03.2005 -- The International Federation of Journalists today condemned the Iranian authorities for the sentencing of web journalist, Arash Cigarchi, to 14 years imprisonment following interviews he had given to the BBC World Service and the US financed, Radio Farda, last week. Cigarchi was convicted of, among other things, espionage, colluding with hostile governments and endangering national security.
http://www.cascfen.org/news.php?nid=921&cid=14
Iran Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2004
Released by US State Department, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - February 28, 2005
...The Press Law established the Press Supervisory Board, which is responsible for issuing press licenses and for examining complaints filed against publications or individual journalists, editors, or publishers. In certain cases, the Press Supervisory Board may refer complaints to the Press Court for further action, including closure. Its hearings were conducted in public with a jury composed of clerics, government officials, and editors of government-controlled newspapers. The jury was empowered to recommend to the presiding judge the guilt or innocence of defendants and the severity of any penalty to be imposed, although these recommendations were not legally binding.
Since 2000, approximately 100 newspapers and magazines have been closed for varying lengths of time. In the last few years, some human rights groups asserted that the increasingly conservative Press Court assumed responsibility for cases before Press Supervisory Board consideration, often resulting in harsher judgments. Efforts to amend the press laws have not met with success, although in October 2003, Parliament passed a law limiting the duration of temporary press closures to a maximum of 10 days for newspapers, 4 weeks for weeklies or bi-weeklies, 2 months for monthlies, and 3 months for other publications. The importance of the legislation was to stop the practice of extending "temporary" bans indefinitely.
http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1002.html
Soccer Stars Lining Up for 'Lags Eleven'
By PA Reporters
They could be one of the most talented sides with some of the foremost names in football.
Arsenal’s Jermaine Pennant, facing three months in jail for drink driving while banned from the road, is just the latest in a string of star names to join the “lags eleven”.
1998: Diego Maradona received two years for shooting journalists with an air rifle but never served the sentence.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4194514
Turkish media curbs decried
Tuesday 01 March 2005, 21:25 Makka Time, 18:25 GMT
Erdogan's EU ambitions could yet founder on rights issues
A lack of press freedom and the prosecution of journalists and intellectuals mean Turkey is not yet
ready to join the European Union,
rights activists say.
Some 60 Turkish writers, publishers and journalists currently face prosecution or are incarcerated, including 19 jailed reporters, Alexis Krikorian of the Geneva-based International Publishers Association (IPA), said on Tuesday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EACBD155-639C-49D7-B72F-E4772FB39250.htm
Ongoing media intimidation is a sure sign of Zimbabwean government insecurity, writes Andrew Meldrum
Monday February 28, 2005
Associated Press correspondent Angus Shaw eluded Zimbabwe police by driving across the Chirundu bridge spanning the Zambezi River to enter Zambia on February 18.
Times correspondent Jan Raath evaded arrest the day before by travelling across Zimbabwe to the southern Plumtree border post and crossing into Botswana.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1427130,00.html
Congress must pass law to shield press
Monday, February 28, 2005
In America, you can go to jail for doing your job. That's the message being sent by a federal appeals court, which recently upheld an earlier court decision ordering two reporters to disclose their sources to a grand jury or face up to 18 months in jail.
Forty-nine states, including New Jersey, and the District of Columbia offer journalists legal protection from just such a scenario. The shield laws in the states where the two reporters are based, New York and Washington, are among the strongest.
http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0MDAmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2NTg5MjcmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNA==
Cuba: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2004
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. February 28, 2005. (FULL REPORT)
Cuba is a totalitarian state controlled by Fidel Castro, who is chief of state with the titles of president, head of government, first secretary of the Communist Party (CP), and commander in chief of the armed forces. The regime exercises control over all aspects of life through the CP and its affiliated mass organizations, the government bureaucracy headed by the Council of State, and the state security apparatus. In March 2003, he declared his intent to remain in power for life.
... The authorities sometimes detained independent journalists to question them about contacts with ... AI determined that all 75 jailed activists were "prisoners of ...
http://www.cubanet.org/ref/dis/02280501_e.htm
'Disappearances' Still Rife, Says Report
Marty Logan
KATHMANDU, Mar 1 (IPS) - Almost one year after Nepal promised to move to end ''disappearances'' of people suspected of aiding a potent Maoist insurgency that has left 11,000 of its citizens dead, the Himalayan nation's commitments still ring hollow.
''The commitments have remained empty declarations, unsubstantiated by real efforts to stop the violations,'' declared the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday.
... released detainees jailed since Feb. 1, apparently at whim, such as Bishnu Nisthuri, general secretary of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, who was let ...
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=27665
Reporter's notebook: final 5 Ws
By GEORGIANA VINES, gvpolitics@hotmail.com
February 28, 2005
Who: Georgiana Vines
What: Looks back on 44-year career covering politics
Where: Through Miami, Milwaukee, Texas and Knoxville
When: 1961-2005
Why: Final assignment from editor
I was going through photographs at home the other night when I came across a press badge provided by the Knoxville Police Department in 1972.
Kyle Testerman was mayor and his message to the police force was "to be courteous and cooperative on all occasions to the bearer of this pass."
… "to be courteous and cooperative on all occasions to the bearer of this pass."
… "to be courteous and cooperative on all occasions to the bearer of this pass."
… "to be courteous and cooperative on all occasions to the bearer of this pass."
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/news_columnists/article/0,1406,KNS_359_3581531,00.html
IFJ Calls on Egypt to Free Jailed Journalists After Book Fair Censorship Sparks Free Expression Fears
08/02/2005
The International Federation of Journalists today accused the Egyptian authorities of censorship and intimidation of independent journalism after a crackdown on activists working at the Cairo International Book Fair.
This week a detained journalist began a hunger strike in protest following his arrest and detention along with other activists after a police raid on the book fair on January 28.
http://www.ifj-europe.org/default.asp?index=2947&Language=EN
Media group asks Eritrea to free more journalists
Tuesday March 8th, 2005 00:16.
LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - A rights group voiced relief on Monday at the release of a Voice of America (VOA) reporter held by Eritrea but said the Red Sea state should also free other jailed journalists.
Eritrea has been Africa's biggest jailer of journalists since 2001, when all independent newspapers were banned.
http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=8407
Nepalese editor Kanak Dixit released
New York, March 8, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release early this morning of prominent Nepalese editor Kanak Mani Dixit, who was detained and questioned for roughly five hours last night. At least four journalists jailed since the royal coup on February 1 remain imprisoned.
http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Nepal08mar05na.html
China joins the BBC for a Question Time from Shanghai
By Richard Spencer in Shanghai
(Filed: 11/03/2005)
China's mix of old and new thinking was on dramatic display last night when it let the BBC record Question Time in Shanghai but ensured that the programme would be seen only abroad.
The event was an experiment for the BBC and the Chinese government, which admitted that it was not the type of show that would be allowed on its tightly controlled media.
... China leads the world in the number of jailed journalists, while the handful of newspapers that once reported on abuses of power have had their editors replaced ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/11/wchin11.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/03/11/ixnewstop.html
Dozens of Latin American writers join CPJ
in urging Castro to release jailed colleagues
March 16, 2005
Fidel Castro Ruz
President of the Councils of State and Ministers
Republic of Cuba
c/o Cuban Interests Section in the United States of America
2630 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20009
Via facsimile: (202) 797-8521
Your Excellency:
The Committee to Protect Journalists, together with the following 107 Latin American journalists and writers, calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all imprisoned Cuban journalists. We further demand that the sentences of six journalists released on medical parole be annulled.
http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2005/cuba_crackdown_05/cuba_crackdown_main.html
Cuba urged to free journalists
Mar 17, 2005
The Committee to Protect Journalists wrote to Cuban President Fidel Castro to urge his government to release 23 independent reporters jailed since a March 2003 crackdown on dissents.
The letter from the New York-based watchdog group was endorsed by 108 Latin American writers and journalists, including novelists Carlos Fuentes and Elena Poniatowska of Mexico and Tomas Eloy Martinez of Argentina.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/479927%3fformat=html
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