Monday, September 5, 2011

Anti-Chinese blogger receives media award

Anti-Chinese blogger receives media award

This year's award of the Potsdam Media Forum M100 receives the Chinese blogger Michael Anti. He stood for a young generation in states where there is no democracy, project manager Sabine Sasse said on Monday in Brandenburg's state capital. The 36-year-old journalist is one of the most widely read blogger in China, which preferably focuses felt and corruption. His name leads anti decade. Actually called the Nanjing-born Zhao Jing. He is close friends with his Nobel Peace Prize to jailed activist Liu Xiaobo.

The undoped price was awarded the M100 anti-Advisory Board for his courageous defense of expression and press freedom and against censorship, it said. The Chinese want to receive the award in person this Thursday. He had received permission to emigrate, told Lord Mayor of Potsdam, Jann Jakobs (SPD), who is also Chairman of the Board. "We expect that he can return." Both James and Sasse stressed that the ceremony was to be understood as "a hint" to China. Just over five years was a large group of anti-known Internet users after the online service MSN has taken its entries from the network.

Main topic of the international media conference M100 Sanssouci Colloquium is the role played by new media such as Twitter and Facebook for the revolution in Arab countries and have played. It is under the heading "Global Democracy - a triumph for social networks?". Want to work in forums around 100 participants to discuss the differences between Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Yemen and Libya. At the same time asked about the future of traditional media.

The opening speech on 8 September, the Tunisian journalist Sihem Bensedrine and opposition members. After the persecution and imprisonment, she spent two years in exile, from which she returned after the resignation of President Ben Ali of Tunisia. For a eulogy to the winner Michael Anti, chief editors of the magazine and the ZDF Stern, Peter Frey, and Thomas Osterkorn are announced. Honor awarded this year's prize-meeting of the founders of the M100, Lord George Weidenfeld, the merits of the former Austrian Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel.

Among the previous winners of the held for seven years, media forum are the founders of the organization "Doctors without Borders", Bernard Kouchner, the musician and "Live Aid" organizer Bob Geldof, the Danish cartoonist Knut Westergaard and Germany's former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( FDP).

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