Laura and Euna

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    LAURA & EUNA, NOW LIBERATED

  • A Few Gift Ideas

    liberatelaura
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:11 pm
    Even though they do not celebrate Christmas in North Korea, it would seem permissible – nay, mandatory – for special U.S. Envoy Stephen Bosworth to present Kim Jong-il with an early Yuletide offering when he visits Pyongyang on December 8th. This despite the fact that the Dear Leader is scheduled to be there in spirit only and has a tendency to quickly toss such diplomatic offerings onto a Twin Peaks pile recently visited – and wonderfully detailed – by Beijing prof @prchovanec. Nevertheless, with Bosworth focused on learning the latest North Korean tango steps, I thought…

  • Will the Real Kim Jong-il Please Stand Up?

    liberatelaura
    31 Oct 2009 | 10:39 am
    Tonight, moreso than any previous Halloween, a gaggle of would-be Kim Jong-il’s will be saddling up to good-looking women at parties and warbling, “Tlick or tleat?” And if one or more of these Dear Leader dress-ups happens to be at the same place as a costumed Laura Ling, Euna Lee and-or Bill Clinton (or if a pint-sized Jong shows up tonight on the doorstep of Laura and husband Iain Clayton’s North Hollywood home), then August history may repeat itself in, respectively, amusing and awkward fashion. However, thanks to Japanese writer and long-time KJi conspiracy…

  • Euna-Laura Trumps Linda-Monica

    liberatelaura
    4 Oct 2009 | 10:29 am
    Last Wednesday evening at Fleming’s Prime Steak House in Sarasota, Florida, Bill Clinton received yet another impromptu standing ovation from a group of restaurant patrons, this time at the close of a day’s worth of golf playing and speech-making sponsored by the parents of Doug and Roger Band, close confidants who accompanied the President on his trip to North Korea. It was the latest vivid reminder of just how dramatically the conclusion brought about by Clinton to the arrest of Laura Ling and Euna Lee on March 17th, 2009 has eclipsed the stain of the Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp…

  • North Korea’s Mata Hari

    liberatelaura
    28 Sep 2009 | 12:06 pm
    Although Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s producer-cameraman Mitchell Koss greatly endangered North Korean refugees and their helpers by fleeing back to the Chinese side of the border on March 17th and thereby allowing the Chinese authorities to seize his camera footage, the fallout from his actions is nothing compared to that engendered by Won Jeong-hwa. As we approach the one-year anniversary of this 35-year-old’s time served in a South Korean jail (October 15th), it’s worth revisiting the @CurrentVanguard-worthy case of North Korea’s equivalent to the infamous Mata Hari. This North…

  • The Queen of Six-Party Simulations

    liberatelaura
    18 Sep 2009 | 12:52 pm
    As we approach a seemingly inevitable restart of the Six-Party talks, many different experts are sharing what they think might happen when representatives from the U.S., China, Russia, Japan and South Korea try to cajole North Korea from brinksmanship to the brink of nuclear disarmament. But I would venture to say that no one at the moment has a more pragmatic sense of this setting than Nicole Marae Finneman, Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the Washington, D.C. based Korea Economic Institute (KEI). Over the past year and a half, through the prism of 730 individual participants…
 
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    Description:For Laura and Euna. . .Week 21/Home with very happy families.A NEW BEGINING.WE ARE NOW GOING TO HELP IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD.Starting with Iran.The "Laura and Euna" page ( http://www.facebook.com/lauraandeuna?ref=ts )is now going to be working on bringing all imprisoned journalists home, including the 3 hikers.There is a large concentration in Iran, due to the recent elections.We are going to start there and focus our collective efforts to free the journalists.We will then keep moving.So. . . We need to educate ourselves.Find out which journalists are being held…

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    Welcome Home 2 posts by 2 people Created on August 6, 2009 at 5:39am Latest post by Diana Posted on August 6, 2009 at 1:14pm

  • Posted Item: Media thread regarding their release

    Media thread regarding their release 6 posts by 4 people Created on August 4, 2009 at 1:28pm Latest post by Lizzie Posted on August 5, 2009 at 2:11pm

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    A beautiful day! 3 posts by 3 people Created on August 5, 2009 at 7:05am Latest post by Wanda Posted on August 5, 2009 at 10:33am

  • Posted Item: Obama's Speech on Laura and Euna

    Obama's Speech on Laura and Euna 1 post by 1 person Created on August 5, 2009 at 10:11am Latest post by Gally Posted on August 5, 2009 at 10:11am
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    Wikio - Laura Ling

  • Mags: 12 (Commission Free) Reasons to Get Glamour (Girl With a Satchel)

    18 Nov 2009 | 6:48 pm
    ... 5. The world needs more Hilary Duffs. Enough said. 6. Investigative journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were arrested while reporting on human trafficking in North Korea being celebrated for their work... 7. Travel epiphanies are not just unique to Elizabeth Gilbert. See 'The Trip That Changed My Life'. 8. Festive altruism, Glamour -style, includes "Help get PJs to kids in...Source : Girl With a Satchel (subscribe)Explore : Crime, Domestic Violence, International, Models, USA

  • Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race [Euna Lee] (Valleywag)

    13 Nov 2009 | 6:53 am
    Imprisoned journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were freed from North Korea's clutches in August. One week later, Ling—the more telegenic one, with the famous sister—was shopping a book....Source : Valleywag (subscribe)Explore : Euna Lee, International, North Korea

  • Euna Lee signs book deal (SoCal Sports Observed)

    12 Nov 2009 | 11:05 pm
    Euna Lee and Laura Ling continue to go their separate ways. Today in New York, Broadway Books confirmed it has a deal for Lee's account of the Los Angeles journalists'...Source : SoCal Sports Observed (subscribe)Explore : Euna Lee, International, International Justice

  • Six-figure book deal for journalist caputured by North Korea (New York Post)

    12 Nov 2009 | 2:19 pm
    Current TV correspondent Euna Lee, who with her colleague Laura Ling was captured by North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor before being freed, is writing her memoir of the experience for the Broadway Books imprint of Random House. She rec...Source : New York Post (subscribe)Explore : Book Publishers, Entertainment, International, North Korea, Random House

  • [PR] Announcing the 2009 IDA Awards nominees (Movie City Indie)

    12 Nov 2009 | 12:30 pm
    The International Documentary Association Announces Nominees for The 2009 IDA Awards Laura Ling and Euna Lee to Present Tribute to Courage Under Fire at the 25th Anniversary of the IDA Awards LOS ANGELES, November 12, 2009– The nominees for the International Documentary Association’s 2009 IDA Documentary Awards competition were announced today, including many of the year’s most...Source : Movie City Indie (subscribe)Explore : Bill Clinton, Former US Presidents, International, North Korea, USA
 
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  • Turner family "moves on" after trial - WPDE

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:55 pm
    WCBDTurner family "moves on" after trialWPDELaura Ling was murdered by Stanko just hours before he killed Henry Lee Turner. "I was there you know 24/7 during their trial, and I appreciate them showing Jury begins sentencing deliberations in Stanko trialWISStephen Stanko sentenced to deathWCBDStanko sentenced to death for second timeMyrtle Beach Sun NewsWMBF -The Stateall 48 news articles »

  • Up Your Butt: Contraband Behind Bars - Huffington Post (blog)

    18 Nov 2009 | 1:50 pm
    Up Your Butt: Contraband Behind BarsHuffington Post (blog)Last year, Laura Ling, Euna Lee and I did another hour-long documentary for "Vanguard," called "Getting out of Prison," which looked at the serious problems

  • Ashton Kutcher, Lisa Ling, Denise Richards, Alyssa Milano - Examiner.com

    18 Nov 2009 | 10:57 am
    Examiner.comAshton Kutcher, Lisa Ling, Denise Richards, Alyssa MilanoExaminer.comThis story moved me similar to the Laura Ling & Euna Lee situation when they were imprisoned in China. As you know they have thankfully been released & are

  • Euna Lee Scores A Big Book Deal - Mediaite.com

    13 Nov 2009 | 8:30 am
    GawkerEuna Lee Scores A Big Book DealMediaite.comThe adventures of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two CurrentTV journalists jailed in North Korea earlier Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal RaceGawkerEuna Lee Beats Laura Ling to Book DealNBC Bay AreaJournalist Gets Book DealNew York TimesBayNewser -New York Postall 9 news articles »

  • Quick Takes - Los Angeles Times

    13 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Quick TakesLos Angeles TimesA special "Courage Under Fire" tribute will be presented to Current Media journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were arrested by North Korean soldiers and more »
 
 
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    CNN.com: News & Video on North Korea

  • Obama to send envoy to North Korea

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:04 am
    U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul on Thursday, said he will send envoy Stephen Bosworth to North Korea next month for bilateral talks on dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear program.

  • U.S. announces one-on-one talks with North Korea

    10 Nov 2009 | 5:17 pm
    U.S. officials will soon meet unilaterally with North Korean representatives to facilitate the resumption of talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday.

  • Korean navies exchange fire

    10 Nov 2009 | 3:02 pm
    North and South Korea said their naval forces clashed Tuesday in disputed waters, and each blamed the other for what is the first such violent incident in seven years.

  • North Korea produces plutonium with 'weapons potential'

    3 Nov 2009 | 7:50 am
    North Korea has completed reprocessing thousands of spent fuel rods, producing plutonium which could be used in nuclear weapons, state-run media reported Tuesday.

  • Doing business in North Korea

    2 Nov 2009 | 9:28 am
    As the chairwoman of South Korea's Hyundai group, Hyun Jeong-eun, faces business challenges few other executives can imagine.
 
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    Press Freedom

  • Cuba: Raúl Castro Imprisons Critics, Crushes Dissent

    Human Rights Watch
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:17 am
    (Washington, DC) - Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch says in a report released today. read more

  • Iran: Four Journalists Receive Hellman/Hammett Grants

    Human Rights Watch
    9 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pm
    (New York) - Four Iranians are among 37 writers from 18 countries who are receiving the prestigious Hellman/Hammett award, Human Rights Watch said today. The award recognizes their commitment to free expression and the courage with which they have faced political persecution. read more

  • Cuba: Prominent Blogger Abducted, Beaten

    Human Rights Watch
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:20 pm
    (Washington, DC) – Cuban authorities should cease all attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and civic activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community should condemn attacks on those who peacefully exercise their basic rights to freedom of expression, opinion, and assembly in the strongest terms. read more

  • Honduras: Investigate Abuses, Repeal Repressive Measures

    Human Rights Watch
    30 Oct 2009 | 2:39 pm
    (Washington, DC) - The restoration of constitutional order in Honduras should be accompanied by the immediate repeal of repressive decrees issued by the de facto government, and a full investigation of abuses committed in the aftermath of the coup, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

  • Libya: Drop Charges against Journalist

    Human Rights Watch
    27 Oct 2009 | 10:49 am
    (New York) - The Libyan government should investigate allegations of sexual harassment in a state-run residence for women who had been orphaned instead of charging the journalist who reported the story with criminal defamation, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
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    Asia

  • Thailand: End Detention of Lao Hmong Refugees

    Human Rights Watch
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:42 pm
    (New York) - The Thai government should immediately end the detention of 158 Lao Hmong refugees held in poor and abusive conditions for three years, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. read more

  • Letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on the Detention and Mistreatment of Lao Hmong Refugees

    Human Rights Watch
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:40 pm
    Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Government House Pitsanulok Road, Dusit Bangkok 10300 Thailand Re: Detention and Mistreatment of Lao Hmong Refugees Dear Prime Minister, read more

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    Human Rights Watch
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:41 pm

  • Joint letter to Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on North Korea

    Human Rights Watch
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Public Relations Office Cabinet Secretariat 1-6-1 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8968, Japan   Re: Japanese Policy on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees Dear Prime Minister Hatoyama: read more

  • Japan: Press North Korea on Human Rights

    Human Rights Watch
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    (New York) - The new Japanese government should take a leadership role in helping to improve human rights conditions in North Korea, Human Rights Watch and three other nongovernmental organizations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. read more
 
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    CPJ: Blog

  • Didace Namujimbo, the brother I lost in Bukavu

    Déo Namujimbo
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:14 pm
    I shall never forgive myself for having initiated and encouraged my younger brother, Didace Namujimbo, to take up journalism. Working for 21 years in Bukavu, a city nestled on the picturesque shores of Lake Kivu, led me to cover every aspect of the brutal conflict and humanitarian catastrophe in this part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but a year ago nothing prepared me to deal with the news that my brother had been killed. If I had known that such a fate awaited him, I think I'd have advised him to continue his studies at the Higher Institute of Rural Development in Bukavu, or…

  • Obama responses stun Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez

    Carlos Lauría/Americas Senior Program Coordinator
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:01 pm
    Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was astounded this week by President Barack Obama’s decision to respond a written questionnaire Sánchez submitted to the White House. Still recovering from bruises left by a recent vicious attack by state security agents, she told CPJ from her home in Havana: “This is the best way to get better.”  The blogger said that she had tried for months to reach the U.S. president through different channels. Sánchez said she had sent written questions to Obama through a wide range of different people before the White House responded. On her blog Generación Y,…

  • Criminal defamation eliminated in Argentina

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:03 am
    We issued the following statement today in response to Wednesday’s approval by the Argentine Senate of a government-sponsored bill that repeals criminal defamation provisions from the penal code... “We commend Argentina’s authorities for passing this bill, which strikes down criminal sanctions for libel and slander,” said CPJ Senior Americas Program Coordinator Carlos Lauría. “It is an important step towards advancing free expression in Argentina, and a landmark decision in the campaign to repeal criminal defamation in the Americas,” added Lauría.

  • Zambian editor acquitted in hospital 'obscenity' case

    Mohamed Keita/Africa Research Associate
    17 Nov 2009 | 2:10 pm
    As the news editor of Zambia’s largest circulation newspaper and a mother to two young children, Chansa Kabwela already has her hands full. For the last four months, however, this 29-year-old journalist was mired in a court case with a peculiarity that made international headlines and sparked a debate on press freedom in this landlocked nation in southern Africa. The case was finally resolved on Monday. Pictures arrived in June in the newsroom of Kabwela’s newspaper, The Post,and they were disturbing:a mother giving birth outside the University Teaching…

  • International press decries attack on Rosenberg

    Bob Dietz/Asia Program Coordinator
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:14 pm
    Twenty-one international news editors have signed on to a letter to the Pakistan government today. It was addressed to Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira and was drafted by Islamabad’s foreign correspondent communityThey were concerned about an article that appeared in Pakistan’s The Nation daily on November 5 accusing Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Rosenberg of working for the CIA, Israeli intelligence, and the U.S. military contractor Blackwater (now known as Xe).  Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson wrote to The Nation’s editor, Shireen Mazari…
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    CPJ: Asia

  • Singapore refuses to renew foreign journalist’s visa

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am
    New York, November 19, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Singapore government’s refusal to renew British freelance journalist Benjamin Bland’s work visa and its rejection of his application to cover the recently concluded Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting. Bland had planned to report on the summit for the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

  • Honored for their work, threatened at home

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:18 am
    CPJ introduces 2009 International Press Freedom Awardees Washington, November 19, 2009Naziha Réjiba, editor of the Tunisian online news journal Kalima, said she knows what to expect when she returns home—surveillance, harassment, and threats conducted by one the world’s most repressive governments.

  • Indonesia deports two foreign journalists

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:16 am
    New York, November 18, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Indonesian government’s decision to deport Raimondo Bultrini, a reporter with Italy’s weekly L’Espresso, and Kumkum Dasgupta, an assistant editor with India’s Hindustan Times, for lacking accreditation. 

  • Journalist and translator freed in Afghanistan

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:28 pm
    New York, November 12, 2009—A Norwegian freelance journalist and an Afghan colleague were released Thursday after nearly a week in captivity in eastern Afghanistan, according to international news reports.

  • Obama should press Chinese for release of jailed journalists

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    10 Nov 2009 | 1:53 pm
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    CPJ: Reports

  • Independent broadcasters harassed, taken off air in Ukraine

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:27 am
    New York, November 20, 2009—Authorities in Odessa, Ukraine, should immediately cease harassment of independent and pro-opposition broadcasters, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Officials from the Odessa Public Utility Service and mayor’s office have been physically obstructing the work of several local television and radio stations on the grounds of alleged building renovation, according to local news reports. 

  • Singapore refuses to renew foreign journalist’s visa

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am
    New York, November 19, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Singapore government’s refusal to renew British freelance journalist Benjamin Bland’s work visa and its rejection of his application to cover the recently concluded Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting. Bland had planned to report on the summit for the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.

  • Honored for their work, threatened at home

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:18 am
    CPJ introduces 2009 International Press Freedom Awardees Washington, November 19, 2009Naziha Réjiba, editor of the Tunisian online news journal Kalima, said she knows what to expect when she returns home—surveillance, harassment, and threats conducted by one the world’s most repressive governments.

  • Two Somali journalists injured in separate shootings

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:37 pm
    New York, November 18, 2009—Two Somali correspondents for international media outlets were injured in separate shootings, one in the northeast semi-autonomous region of Puntland, and the other in the capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports.

  • Indonesia deports two foreign journalists

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:16 am
    New York, November 18, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Indonesian government’s decision to deport Raimondo Bultrini, a reporter with Italy’s weekly L’Espresso, and Kumkum Dasgupta, an assistant editor with India’s Hindustan Times, for lacking accreditation. 
 
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  • An Early Thanksgiving

    rachelroh
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:36 am
    Thanksgiving has a new meaning. This year we feel particularly blessed.

  • Mixed Race Girl Sparks Ugly Race Debate in China

    rachelroh
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:21 pm
    This summer, a 20-year old Shanghai woman sparked a discussion about race across China. Lou Jing is like any other Chinese girl, but when the aspiring TV journalist entered Let’s Go, Oriental Angels, an American Idol-like contest, and rapped on stage, she attracted both admiration and racist hate. President Obama’s arrival in China on Sunday was [...]

  • ‘How to Draw Asian Women’

    yellowkid
    13 Nov 2009 | 10:34 am
    Bill Connolly Fails Epically, Loyal K*N*G Posted in Asian American

  • Random House Inks Six-figure Book Deal With Euna Lee

    rachelroh
    12 Nov 2009 | 5:36 pm
    Current TV correspondent Euna Lee, who with her colleague Laura Ling was captured by North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor before being freed, is writing her memoir of the experience for the Broadway Books imprint of Random House, the New York Post and The New York Times reported today She received a six [...]

  • Current TV Staff Hit by ‘Bloodbath’ of Layoffs

    rachelroh
    11 Nov 2009 | 7:48 pm
    Word has it that the L.A. staff of Al Gore’s Current TV was hit today by “a bloodbath” that saw 80 employees laid off across all departments, as management implemented “a shift in programming strategy.” It hasn’t been a good year for the Al Gore-founded Current TV cable venture. First, back in March two reporters from its [...]
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