Massoud Hamid is awarded the 2005 cyberfreedom prize
The 2005 Reporters Without Borders - Fondation de France prize in the "cyberdissident" category was awarded on 7 December to Massoud Hamid. He was arrested in July 2004 and sentenced to three years in prison for "membership of a secret organisation" after posting photos of a Kurdish demonstration in Syria on a foreign-based website.