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A pressing issue: Belarusian journalists 'gagged' by draconian censorship laws.(MEDIA): An article from: New Internationalist [H] [T] [M]
Riccardo Valsecchi (Digital) New Internationalist Magazine 2009-06-01
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Julian Assange, the man behind whistleblower site Wikileaks, avoids travelling to certain regions in the world, namely the US. Pressrelease: " ...
CHAN: More controversy is brewing over the Beijing Olympics. This time Internet censorship is hitting the headlines. A slew of human rights and ...
In Girl's Death Video China Sees Growth's Perils: Jonathan Alter
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- I’m on a trip to China this month, and it’s coinciding with some Middle Kingdom soul-searching about what Chinese people owe one another. In an age of “golden collar” workers made rich in the new economy, the Chinese are struggling to locate their social conscience. To move to the next level of development, the government needs to do the same.
It’s an important sign that even as China’s leadership continues to censor the Internet, it’s allowing online safety valves to let off steam.
The authorities are letting anyone with a mobile device -- that’s 900 million Chinese -- use monitored social-networking sites to have a conversation about what’s wrong with their national character.
Last month brought a viral video from the city of Foshan of a 2-year-old girl hit by a truck. The girl was ignored as pedestrians callously passed by; then she was struck by another car. She later died. Like millions of other workers, the toddler’s parents had left the countryside and moved to the city, where they let their daughter play in traffic.
John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review, Version 2.0 ...
The Audacity of Obama's Big Book Promo - Helle Dale, Heritage.org: "After President Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009, U.S. embassies around the world apparently felt that foreigners still did not know enough about him, despite the unprecedented blaze of global publicity surrounding his election. As has been remarked, U.S. public diplomacy in the age of Obama often amounts to the same thing as publicity for the President himself, with American institutions serving as megaphones for his political message. Embassies in countries from France to Indonesia decided that the American taxpayer would like to give away copies of Obama’s two books—Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope—for the enlightenment of the locals. In Paris, they were still dishing out copies of the 16-year-old Dreams from My Father as recently as March of this year....
International rights groups condemn unfair trial of ... - on Censorship
On 27 November, a final verdict will be issued in the case of five activists known as the “UAE Five”, who have been detained since April for posts made on the internet forum UAE Hewar. A coalition of seven international human rights group, including Index on Censorship, today call on the United Arab Emirates to “launch an independent judicial inquiry into the decision to prosecute the men” in order to ensure a fair trial for the men.
The five activists are blogger and engineer Ahmed Mansoor, Nasser bin Ghaith, an economist and lecturer at Sorbonne, and online activists Fahad Salim Dalk, Ahmed Abdul Khaleq, and Hassan Ali-al-Khamis. They were all charged in June under articles 176 and 8 of the the UAE’s penal code, which rule that any individual that publicly insulting “the president of the state, its flag, or its national emblem” is punishable by a prison. Al Karama (Dignity), Amnesty International, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), Frontline Defenders, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, and Index on Censorship, have all reviewed the messages allegedly posted on the now banned UAE Hewar, and determined the messages only criticise political leaders or government policy. This would not violate the law in question, suggesting that the UAE 5 are being targeted for political reasons.
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