fund against censorship

It Makes a Difference:

• "Judgment on the criminal libel appeal was delivered on Wednesday (and) I was acquitted."
  -- Sanna Manneh, The Torch, Gambia
• "We are grateful to you for aiding our newspaper in the hardest period. The authorities were quite surprised that SWABODA found the means to hire a qualified lawyer."
  -- Ihar Hermianchuk, SWABODA (Liberty), Minsk
• "I paid the lawyer representing (me) in the habeas corpus application while I was in detention."
  -- Gitobu Imanyara, The Nairobi Law Quarterly, Kenya
• "With a pretty hefty legal fee and nowhere to get help, being an editor on a basic $6,000 salary per annum (was) not helping my situation at all. Thank you."
  -- Uelese Petaia, Samoa Times
• "We are extremely grateful. Not only will the money help us to survive, but it is very encouraging to know colleagues elsewhere support us in our struggle."
  -- Max du Preez, Vrye Weekblad, Johannesburg
• "If we succeed in staying out of jail...it will be as a result of (this) support."
  -- Julius S. Spencer, The New Breed, Sierra Leone
• "We would like to thank you...for standing by us...,"
  -- E.T. Rusike, The Financial Gazette, Zimbabwe
• "Your letter offering legal support was published on our front page today. Allow us to express gratitude for your support, due to which we finally received (permission to publish)."
  -- Vitaly Tretiakov, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Moscow
• "We need the help of organizations such as yours to stave off attacks by those...who would like to silence the free press forever."
  -- Yndamiro Restano, Bureau de la Prensa Independiente de Cuba
• "It is through support such as this that the fight against censorship (is) made possible in South Africa."
  -- Alexandra Kuhn, Media Defense Fund, South Africa
• "(Your support) contributed to making Mr. Njawe’s release unavoidable, thus reinforcing the struggle in our country for press freedom, which remains a constant quest everywhere, all the time."
  -- Staff members of Le Messager, Cameroon