Petition to African Union Leaders: Set Journalists Free and Abandon Press Controls

[George Lessard]

African Union Campaign - Petition as Submitted to African Union with  
Statement to African Unions and Current List of Signatories

08/07/2003

Dear Colleagues,

Please find (links to) the petition and list of current signatories.

Kindly help circulate urgently to your media/press contacts in Europe  
and internationally for publication.

Some more organisations and persons have indictaed their intention to  
sign up or issue statements in support so we have decided to continue  
running the petition and submit a follow up list at a significant time  
in the near future which should contain more support from prominent  
African writers, more news organisations and maybe Bar associations and  
Trade unions etc.

Best Regards.
Adeyinka Olubunmi

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Do you support Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression?
Would you be happy to sign a petition aimed at the African Union & its  
member states calling for the release of all incarcerated African  
Journalists & for the repeal of Anti-media and Anti-free expression  
legislation? If Yes, click on the following link -
Sign the Petition
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/freeafricanmedia/

If you would you like to do more, please make this message part of your  
signature and/or forward it to like minded people.
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media at credonet.org
Centre for Research Education & Development Of
- [CREDO]- Freedom of Expression & Associated Rights

Click on the following link for a pdf file of the petition: Download  
the Statement to African Unions and List of Signatories(PDF - 550.2Kb)
  http://www.ifj.org/pdfs/Petition.pdf
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See also

  Full text of the petition
  http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=1671
IFJ statement
http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=1673


The Pambazuka editorial in support of the petition
"...THE CHALLENGES BEFORE AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN UNION By Rotimi  
Sankore And Firoze Manji Issue date: 2003-05-29 ..." can be read by  
clicking  here
http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=15362