RWB ‘outrage’ over WSIS incident
p2p news / p2pnet: Reporters Without Borders says it’s “outraged” because Tunisia refused entry to RWB secretary general Robert Ménard for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
“Plain clothes Tunisian police officers physically prevented Ménard from leaving an Air France plane after it touched down in Tunis on 17 November 2005,” states the organization.
“One officer told the head of the worldwide press freedom organisation that he had no right to get off the plane since he did not have accreditation for the WSIS.”
Ménard said he was, in fact, accredited having been issued a pass number 10 30 191 but, “He received no further explanation from police officers at the door of the plane and on the tarmac. The plane’s captain told him to stay on board and issued him with a return ticket on the same aircraft.”
WSIS executive director Charles Geiger said in a statement, “that Robert Ménard was not welcome at the summit, although his office had given him accreditation,” says RWB, adding, “He referred to a claim made by the Tunisian authorities that an official complaint had been laid against Ménard in Tunisia.
“Geiger admitted that he had not confirmed the existence of the complaint. Moreover, the president of the Tunisian bar told Reporters Without Borders’s lawyer that he was unaware of any such complaint.”
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Reporters Without Borders – Robert Ménard prevented from attending the UN Internet summit, November 17, 2005
November 18th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Guess I’m not up on my acronyms or world news. why is the WSIS so upset about having a reporter from the RWB attend their summit? does it have anything to do with copyright, intelectual property laws? etc….
November 18th, 2005 at 8:48 pm
The reason why important meetings like this are held in repressive countries is so that the people of the world will have no voice. Those who plot the demise of freedom want to do so where there will be no protesters raising their voice against the process. They also want only reporters friendly to cartel-government alliance to cover the event so that only the information the cartel-government alliance wants us to have will be seen by us. It’s only when all people stand up for their inalienable rights will the governments are cartels be forced to change. Remeber, the cartels and governments depend on people like us to function and survive.
November 19th, 2005 at 2:57 am
This is a secret?
November 19th, 2005 at 5:26 am
Not really, but the word secret is used to get people to read. I am beginning to use the same weapon as the cartels in order to regain freedom. Many people just never question why certain things are done by certain people in certain places. I want people to start questioning “authority” and star reasserting their rights while they still have a few protections left.