BOARD OF DIRECTORSArnold Amber
CBC Television Network News
President
Mori Abdolalian
CJFE Journalists in Exile
Alison Armstrong
Journalist/writer
Bob Carty
CBC-Radio "This Morning"
Barbara Falk
Writer/Lecturer
Mike Forzley
Accountant
Roger Holmes
The Wainwright Star Chronicle, Alberta
Steve Lukits
Royal Military College
John Norris
Lawyer, Ruby, Edwardh
Carol Off
CBC Television Network News
Jake Peters
Photojournalist
Kelly Toughill
King's College, Nova Scotia
Philip Tunley
Lawyer, Stockwoods LLP
Mary Deanne Shears
Journalist
Sally Warren
Journalist, Editor, Author
ADVISORY BOARDPeter Desbarats
Maclean-Hunter Chair for Communications Ethics, Ryerson
Parker Barss Donham
freelance
John Honderich
The Toronto Star
John Macfarlane
Toronto Life
Joe Matyas
Southern Ontario Newspaper Guild
Ann Medina
freelance
Rick Moffat
Radio-TV News Directors Assn.
Lynda Powless
Native Journalists' Association
Lloyd Robertson
CTV News
Robert Scully
Télémision Information Inc.
Julian Sher
Canadian Association of Journalists
Keith Spicer
Institut du Monde anglophone Université de Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle
Norman Webster
Montreal
Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisia
Sihem Bensedrine is known as a tireless press freedom fighter and human rights activist in Tunisia. Her professional background
includes work as a reporter, editor-in-chief at five newspapers, several of which were banned by the government including Kalima and
Blanc sur Noir. She also founded and directed Arcs Editions Publishing House, and another publishing house Les editions Aloès which
was raided three times by the police and was closed shortly thereafter. She is also the co-founder of Tunisia's Human Rights League.
For her work she has been threatened, there was a pornographic campaign against her, her passport was confiscated for three years,
and her telephone and internet have been cut and placed under surveillance. In May 2000 she was arrested and tortured by the police
resulting in several broken ribs, an injury to her spinal cord and black eyes. She was arrested again on June 26, 2001, and detained
for six weeks after an appearance on British television in which she criticized the Tunisian government of President Zine Al-Abdine
Ben Ali. She is currently spending a year in Germany at the Hamburg Foundation for the Politically Persecuted. She continues to
expose the wide-spread human rights abuses in Tunisia, which is a popular German tourist destination.