For those of you who don't recognise the above words they come from the first amendment to the US constitution. Whether or not they are still operable is certainly open to question.
Reporters sans frontières have issued their annual assessment of press freedom for 2006 and it is not good news for Americans. The good all USA falls to 53rd in the table (down 9 from last year) slipping behind such beacons of liberty as Mozambique, the Dominican Republic and Panama. The UK is a respectable joint 27th with Lithuania.
The report cites the arrest and imprisonment of journalists and bloggers in the mainland US who refused to name sources as well as the detention of Sudanese national Sami al-Haj, who works for the pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera, at Guantánamo Bay Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein who is being held by American authorities in Iraq.
Read more here.
Reporters sans frontières have issued their annual assessment of press freedom for 2006 and it is not good news for Americans. The good all USA falls to 53rd in the table (down 9 from last year) slipping behind such beacons of liberty as Mozambique, the Dominican Republic and Panama. The UK is a respectable joint 27th with Lithuania.
The report cites the arrest and imprisonment of journalists and bloggers in the mainland US who refused to name sources as well as the detention of Sudanese national Sami al-Haj, who works for the pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera, at Guantánamo Bay Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein who is being held by American authorities in Iraq.
Read more here.
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