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<strong>Beijing</strong> <strong>Olympics</strong> <strong>2008</strong>: <strong>Winning</strong> <strong>Press</strong> <strong>Freedom</strong><br />
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Yuwen Wu<br />
News and Current Affairs Editor, BBC Chinese Service<br />
Born in China, she was educated in China, Britain and Canada. She has been at the BBC<br />
<strong>World</strong> Service since 1995 and is now in charge of news and current affairs output of the<br />
BBC's Chinese Service. She has written and spoken extensively on Chinese affairs,<br />
especially on the situation of the news media in China.<br />
Henrikas Yushkiavitshus<br />
Independent media consultant, Paris<br />
Born in Lithuania, he was director of the Technical Center of the International Radio and<br />
Television Organization, Intervision, in Prague. From 1971 to 1990, he was Vice Chairman<br />
of the Soviet State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (Gostelradio). From<br />
1990 to 2001, he was UNESCO's Assistant Director General for Communication and<br />
continues to advise UNESCO’s Director General. He participated in preparing and<br />
implementing broadcast coverage of Olympic Games, starting in 1968, and organized<br />
media coverage arrangements for the Moscow <strong>Olympics</strong> in 1981.<br />
Zhang Yu<br />
Coordinator, Independent Chinese PEN Center of International PEN<br />
Born in Wuhan, China, he resides in Sweden. He graduated 1977 in chemical engineering<br />
from Wuhan Institute of Chemical Technology, and taught there from 1977 to 1981. He<br />
became a research assistant in the department of inorganic chemistry, Royal Institute of<br />
Technology (KTH) in Stockholm in 1982, and was awarded a PhD there in 1987, before<br />
serving as research and senior scientist from 1988-2005. Since 2003, he has been<br />
Coordinator of the Writers in Prison Committee of the Independent Chinese PEN Center in<br />
Stockholm. Since 2000, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the monthly magazine Nordic<br />
Chinese Communication. He has also been active in the Swedish Section of Amnesty<br />
International and the Federation for a Democratic China - activities that have led to his<br />
banning from travel to his home country.