DILI: The Journalist Association of Timor-Leste continues to promote "Liberdade Inprensa" as the name of the road from the Dili Convention Center to Becora because this name was officially announced in 2000 by the late Representative of the United Nations Administration, Sergio Viera de Mello.
The organising committee leader, Francisco da Silva, said the main activity in the celebration for World Press Freedom Day on May 3 is to hold a long march from Rua Liberdade de Imprensa to the grave of Sunder Stone, an international journalist who was killed by pro-autonomy militias in 1999.
"We are organising this event in order to strengthen solidarity between journalists as well as to strengthen the job of journalists," da Silva said.
The director of the Radio Community Center (CRC), Luis Evaristo, said it was important for the journalists to create unity as journalists faced big challenges in the upcoming general election of 2012. - Timor Post/ETAN/Pacific Media Watch
* News item translated from Tetun.
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