The New York Times editors opine today on North Korea’s Cruel Verdict, the sentencing in North Korea of two journalists to twelve years of hard labor for spying. The journalists were caught trespassing on North Korean ground and presented varying explanations of their intent. Still:
Whatever the case, they do not deserve to be sent to a brutal labor camp where, […] With no access to lawyers or due process, the two journalists did not have anything approaching a fair chance to defend themselves.
Since September 2 2008 Reuters cameraman Ibrahim Jassam is detained by the U.S. military in Iraq without presenting any evidence and despite a court order to set him free:
"He used to be handsome, but now he's pale and he's tired," said Walid, who says his brother had no ties to insurgents. "Every now and then while we were talking, he would start crying. He was begging me: 'Please do something to get me out of here. I don't know what is the charge against me.'
The New York Times has neither reported nor opined on the detention of Ibrahim Jassam.