The founder and director of Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders – RSF) Robert Menard, gestures as he speaks during a conference on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, on August 22, 2008 in Paris. Menard has shot to international attention with his calls for a boycott of the opening ceremony of the games and for his condemnation of China’s crackdown on Tibetan protestors. AFP PHOTO PIERRE VERDY