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New U.S. law widens scrutiny
of global press freedom.
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resident Obama signed the
Daniel Pearl Freedom of the
Press Act into law, joined
by six members and three genera-
tions of the slain journalist's fam-
ily. The act, named
in honor of the
Wall Street Journal
reporter kidnapped
and decapitated by
Islamic terrorists
in Pakistan in 2002,
expands the exami-
nation
of press
Daniel Pearl
freedom worldwide
in the U.S. State
Department's annu-
al human rights
report. It was signed
into law Monday
morning.
"Violators of press
freedom
throughout
Judea Pearl
the world now know
that they will be closely watched:'
Pearl's father, Judea, said before leav-
ing Los Angeles for Washington.
"This is something our son Danny
fought for all his life."
Also participating in the White
House ceremony were Pearl's widow,
Mariane, and their son, Adam Daniel,
who will mark his eighth birthday on
May 28; his mother, Ruth; and sisters
Michelle and Tamara.
Adam was born three months after
the killing of his father, while the
reporter was pursuing an investiga-
tive story on the Al Qaida financial
Tour Frank Home Online
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Anne
Frank House museum has launched
an online virtual tour of the secret
rooms in which the Frank family
and other Jews lived.
The tour shows the rooms, which
have about 1 million visitors annu-
ally, in great detail.
Teenager Anne Frank hid and
wrote her diary in the secret annex
of a building in Amsterdam during
the Nazi occupation. Anne and the
other eight residents of the secret
network.
The new law mandates the State
Department to identify countries in
which there are violations of press
freedom; determine whether the
government authorities of those
countries participate in, facilitate or
condone the violations; and report
the actions these governments have
taken to preserve the safety and inde-
pendence of the media and ensure
the prosecution of those who attack
or murder journalists.
Leading the legislative efforts to
pass the bill was U.S. Rep. Adam
Schiff, D-Calif., according to Judea
Pearl, an Israel-born UCLA professor
emeritus in computer science and
recognized as one of the world's fore-
most experts in artificial intelligence.
Additional key sponsors were Rep.
Mike Pence, R-Ind., in the House and
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., in
the Senate.
"In many parts of the world, the
freedom of the press is the last — or
even the only — safeguard against
the complete erosion of all human
rights:' Dodd said. "With this bill, we
pay tribute to Daniel's life and his
work by shedding a bright light on
this repression and hope to prevent
this sort of tragedy from ever hap-
pening again."
Following their son's murder, Judea
and Ruth Pearl established the Daniel
Pearl Foundation to further Daniel's
legacy of promoting cross-cultural
understanding through a global pro-
gram of journalism, music and inno-
vative communication. Ell
rooms were arrested in August
1944 and sent to Nazi concentra-
tion camps. Only Anne's father, Otto
Frank, survived.
Meanwhile, nearly all of Anne
Frank's diary has gone on display in
the museum to celebrate 50 years
since it opened to the public. Part of
the diary has been on display at the
museum; the rest was lent to the
museum by the Netherlands War
Documentation Center. Three note-
books, a book of short stories and a
book of quotations are on display.
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