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Along with the European country in the annual report of the international human rights organization ... The list includes countries whose government, according to the compilers of the report, the most severely limit the freedom of users on the Internet.
March 12 at the presentation ceremony of the report and the Netizen Prize ( award, ... org Natalia Radin, who was arrested after the presidential elections in Belarus in 2010 and was forced to flee the country.
«Netizen Prize» - award in honor of the users, bloggers and dissidents, who are fighting in defense of freedom of speech on the Internet.
Editor charter97. org presented as a special guest at this year's Netizen Prize Media Center Coordinating Committee of Syria (The media center of the Local Coordination Committees), which combines social group of journalists to gather and disseminate real-time information on the uprising in the country. Yasmin (Jasmine), 27 -year-old Syrian who lives in Canada, accepted the award on behalf of activists who work in her homeland. ( She feared for the lives of his family, so it seems only a pseudonym ).
... - Thank you for recognizing our work as an active and effective organization of the media ...
Experience in Syria may be useful for Belarus. Syrian journalists and bloggers are constantly under threat of arrest by the Government. International news agencies with a few exceptions are outside the country. Because of their lack of coordination committees - almost the only way to disseminate information on violence unleashed. They arose spontaneously after the start of the Syrian Revolution in March last year and joined human rights activists and local journalists. Now committees are working across the country.
Informants on-site collect and transmit information to the committees, who check it by finding evidence from multiple sources. Then the news translated into English and posted on the websites of. Video and photos are also published on Facebook and on the photoblog.
At a ceremony in Paris, constantly sounded theme of Belarus. Representatives of the ...
... Previously the country was in the list of countries ... The situation in Belarus has deteriorated dramatically due to the repression after the 2010 presidential election. Many journalists and bloggers were arrested, the social network Facebook and ... ISPs were spying on Internet users, the popular independent online resources such as charter97. org, were subjected to DDoS attacks and hacking. That is, the power went on to openly criminal methods. The regime in Belarus is understood to what extent it is dangerous for the internet. This is not only a source of information on the situation in the country, human rights violations, but also a way to mobilize citizens. Therefore, against journalists used the whole arsenal of repression: arrests, the hacker did, ...
Calling Belarus ...
... - Government of inventing ever more sophisticated methods of censorship, control and repression. We are proud to have supported Google created an award that recognizes and promotes the courage to Internet users '.
40 countries participate in an active internet censorship. 10 years ago there were only four. ... - «Netizen Prize» and our work with the ... Freedom of information - a DNA Google ».
Handing Netizen Prize Media Center Coordinating Committee of Syria, Natalia Radin said:.
... On the nomination of a lawyer told me, and then I talked to investigators during interrogations: ... After 1.5 months of me, even before the trial, but released. So the awards to journalists in dictatorships such countries as Belarus, Syria, Iran, Bahrain, Myanmar is very important as a symbol of solidarity. They support and sometimes saving the lives of journalists who are persecuted just for being honest and doing their job reporting the world about what is happening in their home countries.
Belarus is deservedly got on the list of Internet enemies. After the country was destroyed by an independent television, radio, newspaper, authorities began to kill and arrest of Internet journalists. Now in Belarus sentenced to imprisonment Khalip known journalists and Andrzej Poczobut, had previously been killed Oleg Bebenin, Zavadsky, Veronika Cherkasova. Yes, while the Belarusian army did not bomb civilians, as in Syria, but over 18 years of the dictatorship of the hard and methodically deals with dissidents by political assassinations and arrests. Unfortunately, many EU countries ignore or Belarus, or look at it as a transit country for gas supplies and oil products, entering into a deal with Europe's last dictator. But business does not have to be more important than human rights. I agree with Google. Freedom should be a priority in the actions of European politicians and businessmen, ...
The presentation was a discussion as ' Internet - an area of freedom, or an instrument of repression ...
Speaking of Belarus, the moderator, journalist, Radio France Ziad Maalouf 1 (Ziad Maalouf) said: ... For the past 18 years it has ruled the former chairman of the kolkhoz. Here falsify elections, held in the prisons of political prisoners, destroy freedom of speech. Here are killing journalists, arranging for their murder suicide, as it did shortly before the presidential election with the founder of the site charter97. org Oleg Byabenin. And this country is not in the south of the Sahara and in Asia, it is located in the heart of Europe ...
The panelists talked about how the Internet revolution took place in the ... On the topic of the Internet to mobilize people in Belarus, Natalia Radin noted that not only political activists adopt the successful experience of the Arab Internet revolution, but also concludes Belarusian dictatorship.
... Active groups in the Internet destroyed in the bud: Moderators groups in social networks have been arrested and recruited by the KGB, the groups themselves are destroyed. The government acted to forestall. But I believe that the Internet will play a key role in the overthrow of the dictatorship. Perhaps, the first attempts were unsuccessful young Belarusians, but it exposed a huge reservoir of people who are ready and mobilized through the Internet to participate in protests. Mobilizing the Internet is entering a qualitatively new level ...
Summing up the discussion, representatives of the ... Previously, they knew practically nothing about our country. ...