Jean-François Julliard
Jean-François Julliard (* 1973 in Bordeaux ) is a French journalist and Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders .
Jean-François Julliard comes from a politically active family. His mother, Arlette Arnaud-Landau, is a member of the Socialist Party and was mayor of Le Puy-en-Velay from 2001 to 2008 and has been deputy chairwoman of the Auvergne regional council since 2004. One brother is Bruno Julliard , president of the UNEF student union from 2005 to 2007. He has been a councilor under the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë and education secretary of the Socialist Party since 2008.
Jean-François Julliard studied journalism, radio and film in Paris.
He has been with Reporters Without Borders since 1998. He was responsible for the Africa region before being appointed Head of Research.
In February 2001 he was arrested in Tunis and expelled from Tunisia after distributing copies of the Jalal Zoghlami monthly magazine Kaws El Karama .
In October 2001 he was thrown to the ground by plainclothes police in Paris during a demonstration by Reporters Without Borders against the visit of the President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré , who was accused of being responsible for the murder of journalist Norbert Zongo .
On Monday March 24th, 2008, during the ceremony of lighting the Olympic flame in Athens, he, along with Robert Ménard and Vincent Brossel, disrupted the speech of the President of the Chinese Olympic Organizing Committee Liu Qi by unfolding a banner in which the Olympic Rings were replaced by handcuffs to protest human rights violations in China.
During the procession of the Olympic flame through Paris, he climbed with Robert Ménard and Priscilla Telmon on the Notre-Dame cathedral to hang up a large flag of the Olympic rings as handcuffs.
On September 26, 2008, he was promoted to General Secretary of the NGO , succeeding Robert Ménard , who had resigned from his post.
He is also the editor of the weekly Qui Vive !, published by Reporters Without Borders.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://jean-francoisjulliard.blogs.nouvelobs.com/about.html
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Julliard, Jean-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |