12-30-2005

受欢迎报纸编辑被撤记者罢工抗议 (Reporters Protest Firing of Popular Newspaper Editor)

北京一家受欢迎报纸的记者罢工，抗议该报的总编辑和两名副总编辑被解职。来自中国的消息说，至少有100名新京报的记者星期四停发新闻。这一罢工行动之前一天，该报总编辑杨斌在会见了该报股东光明日报的负责人之后被解职。

解职原因没有说明，不过维护新闻自由的国际组织“记者无国界”说，这一举措的部份原因是政府试图进一步控制媒体。新京报以经常刊登文章和评论批评政府以及一些社会问题而知名。

维护媒体权利的国际组织“记者无国界”说，对于杨斌的被解职感到震惊和失望，并呼吁恢复三位编辑的职务。

Journalists at a popular Beijing newspaper have walked out to protest the dismissal of the newspaper's top editor and two deputies. Accounts from China say at least 100 reporters at The Beijing News stopped filing articles Thursday. The walkout comes one day after the editor-in-chief, Yang Bin, was dismissed in a meeting with the heads of the Guangming Daily, which partly owns the newspaper.

The reasons for the dismissals were not released, but Reporters Without Borders, an international media freedom group says the move was part of an attempt to tighten government control over the media. The Beijing News is known for printing sensitive articles and editorials about the government and social issues.

International media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders says it is shocked and dismayed by the dismissals, and urged the reinstatement of the three editors.

埃警察驱散苏丹难民抗议十人丧生 (10 Dead As Egyptian Police Break Up Sudanese Refugee Protest)

埃及官员说，在埃及警察试图结束苏丹难民为时三个月的抗议示威时发生的冲突中，至少有10名来自苏丹的移民丧生。这次冲突星期五清晨爆发，持有棍棒和水枪的防暴警察冲击了开罗一个富有居民区内的一个小型广场。目击者说，警察在把抗议示威者送上大客车，并殴打他们。

埃及内政部长说，尽管政府方面试图通过和平方式解决问题，但是这些移民的首领却诉诸暴力。埃及内政部说，抗议者造成的挤踏造成10人死亡，但是在场的记者说没有看到任何挤踏。

这些苏丹难民要求联合国难民署重新审核那些被拒绝的难民申请，并且恢复把难民在主要是美国、加拿大和澳大利亚等第三国安置的做法。联合国难民事务高级专员公署表示对暴力和人员丧生感到震惊。

Egyptian officials say at least 10 Sudanese migrants have been killed in clashes with police trying to end a 3-month-long Sudanese refugee protest. The violence erupted early Friday when riot police armed with sticks and water cannons stormed the small square in an affluent Cairo neighborhood. Witnesses say police beat the protesters as they loaded them onto buses and carried them away.

Egypt's Interior Ministry said migrant leaders resorted to violence despite government attempts to settle the problem peacefully. The ministry said a stampede by the protesters caused the 10 casualties. But reporters at the scene say they saw no stampede.

The Sudanese refugees were demanding that the U.N. Refugee Agency review cases of asylum-seekers whose applications the agency has rejected, and resume resettling refugees in third countries, mainly the United States, Canada and Australia. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says the agency is deeply shocked by the violence and loss of life.