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The International Scholar Foundation has announced its Press Freedom award grantees for 2009. The awards are for $5000 and begin disbursal in January 2009. The Press Freedom Award grantees are Bill Xia and Allen Huang. Bill Xia is the creator of the Freegate websurfing anonymizer, and Allen Huang the originator of the Boundless Browser software. Both products help readers inside China circumvent the Chinese government's "Great Firewall" and receive and read international content that the Chinese government has blacklisted and prevents access to. Other awardees include: Yang Jisheng for his historical writing on the Great Leap Forward, Tombstone: A Record of China's Great Famine of the Early 1960s Legal Studies Award: Zheng Enchong, whose pioneering battles against corruption resulted in the prosecutiona and downfall of corrupt officials Zhou Zhengyi, Huang Ju, Chen Liangyu and Han Zheng. Economist Award to He Qinglian, the exiled social economist whose outstanding works include: The Pitfalls of Modernization and Mainland China's Media Control Tactics Full Chinese report at: http://www.fireofliberty.org/article/10226.asp © Copyright 2009 by Boxun News Top of Page |
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