Campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria
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Sunday February 23, 2003 19:29
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Campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria
Campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria
We are promoting a campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria through internet to the whole world. We have published a web page denouncing the closing of Egunkaria here , and our goal is to make this page and "Egunkaria´s new site":http://www.egunero.info be in a leading place when you search Egunkaria in Google . But to achieve this we need many people´s help, including yours.
What can you do to help the campaign?
ˇ Insert a link to the page and to Egunkaria´s new site in EVERY PAGE (or as much as possible) of your website (your personal site, your company´s, an association you collaborate with), using these pieces of code (they must be written exactly as they appear here):
Egunkaria
Egunkaria
ˇ If you want to put a banner in the links (for example this one), at least don't erase the text Egunkaria, and put an alt="Egunkaria" attribute to the image
ˇ Then add the main page of your site to the pages that Google indexes
ˇ So that we can know how the campaign is going on, write an e-mail to egunkaria@emun.com and tell us the site and the number of pages you´ve inserted the links
ˇ If you don´t have a website, you can still write to the address above to say that you agree with the denounce page
Let's make the injustice done to Egunkaria known to the whole world!
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Eh does anyone know what this is about .... I went to the link but can't understand what language it's in
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In the morning of 28 February 2003, Spanish Judge Instructed the closure of Basque language dayly newspaper EGUNKARI and order the arrest of ten people - including current editor Martxelo Otamendi - presing charges of membership of an ilegal organization against this individuals on the basis of very flimsy and uncorroborated evidence.
We want to denounce, the closure of this newspaper as a new attack against human rights and civil liberties in the Basque Country as, independently of the actions of the individuals - who remain innocent till otherwise demonstrated - there is no reason for the closure of a newspaper, which as organization and media surpasses the responsibility of staff and management.
For this reason, we consider this closure as an act of censorship illegal under Spanish Constitution and International Human Rights Conventions.
This is not the first attack against the Basque media. In 1998 Judge Baltasar Garzon, ordered the closure of daily newspaper EGIN and radio
station EGIN Irratia. A number of member of staff were arrested at the time and were later released on bail. 5 years on the cases have not been heard in court.
At the time, Basque civil society suspicion that the closure of EGIN and EGIN Irratia was a political decision was confirmed as Spanish PM, Josemaria Aznar, declared: "We have finally manage to close EGIN". We feel the decision to close EGUNKARIA has been taken on similar grounds.
So we call on media and civil society around the world to denounce the closure of EGUNKARIA as an act against the very basic right to expression
and information.
For more information please contact Juanma (English speaker) 00 34 66 0513 081 (Basque Country)
Or email to iir@eircom.net for contacts in Ireland.
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