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How We Used Facebook To Try To Free Azerbaijan's 'Donkey Bloggers' » The following is a guest post from Ali S. Novruzov, an Azerbaijani who blogs over at "In Mutatione Fortitudo." He describes how the arrests and convictions of Azerbaijan's "donkey bloggers" have pushed the country's youth activists into finding creative ways to get their message out using new technologies. Back on July 8, late at night, I received an alarming text message. Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada, two prominent Azerbaijani bloggers and youth leaders had been assaulted that evening and were...
Differing media challenges to President Mikheil Saakashvili » Two interesting media stories – one is the next installment of the case recounted here, about the allegations by a regional Georgian newspaper that one of its journalists had been blackmailed by officials from the Georgian special services and the subsequent launch of an internal investigation by the Interior Ministry. Now President Saakashvili has received a letter from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers and the World Editors Forum urging him to ensure thorough investigatio...
Otpor, jedan od uspešnih brendova »   Srđa Popović, jedan od osnivača "Otpora", našao se na listi 100 "Globalnih mislilaca" magazina "Forin polisi", zbog angažovanja u "Arapskom proleću". To je priznanje srpskoj nenasilnoj revoluciji kao brendu, ocenjuje Popović. Jedan od najuglednih američkih spoljnopolitičkih magazina, Forin polisi treću godinu za redom objavljuje listu takozvanih "Globalnih mislilaca", ljudi koji su svojim idejama ili radom doprineli promenama u svetu. Ove godine, na listi se našao i jedan od osnivača ...
How Iran's opposition inverts old slogans » Iranians are marking University Student Day, traditionally an anti-US event that commemorates the killing of three students in 1953. Opposition supporters are expected to try to hijack official protests by chanting their own anti-government slogans.Olivia Cornes navigates some of the opposition chants heard in Iran since June's disputed presidential elections, with the help of BBCPersian.com and protesters themselves.The waves of street chanting among anti-regime protesters are spontaneous but m...
Lawyers Appeal Over Dissident » NEW YORK—Lawyers and Chinese civil rights activists are planning to lodge formal complaints with the United Nations and the Hong Kong government over the detention of former 1989 student democracy activist Zhou Yongjun on charges of “economic fraud” after he tried to visit his ailing father in 2008.A number of lawyers and civil rights activists said they were planning to lodge formal complaints over Zhou’s detention, especially as it took place in Hong Kong, where freedom of speech and the rule ...
“I’m staying in police custody until we have health care for all,” Sam Pullen, 31 » Sam Pullen, 31, was arrested on Thursday, October 15, in Los Angeles at a sit-in at the Blue Cross health insurance office. He is refusing to give information to police, vowing to stay in jail until Blue Cross stops denying care to those who need it most. He is being supported by the group Mobilization for Health Care for All, which coordinated sit-ins and rallies in nine cities across the country yesterday in which 54 people were arrested to end insurance abuse and win health care for all.Pulle...
1,500 protesters flex muscles during lawyers rally » LAHORE: About 1,500 lawyers, civil society activists and political workers took to The Mall to rally for the reinstatement of the sacked judges on Thursday.The National Coordination Council gave the protest call. Followed by the general house meetings, the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) and Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) took out their rallies from Aiwan-e-Adl and the Lahore High Court respectively. The two rallies joined at GPO Chowk and marched towards the Punjab Assembly Hall. Solida...
Venezuela a top concern at press freedom forum » CARACAS, Venezuela — Press freedom groups condemn Venezuela's recent shutdown of radio stations as part of a broader strategy by President Hugo Chavez to progressively clamp down on the private news media — and they want to put a stop to it.Newspaper executives who lead the Miami-based Inter American Press Association say Venezuela will be at the top of their list as they gather in Caracas for an emergency forum Friday to discuss freedom of expression in the Americas.Chavez's government forced 3...
Talks proposed to end Basque violence » The Basque regional president in Spain, Jose Antonio Ardanza, has proposed all-party talks to end more than 30 years of violence over the status of the Basque region. Mr Ardanza's proposals, published by the El Mundo and El Pais newspapers, call for dialogue to begin "unconditionally, and without restriction on its conclusions".
Dictator Hugo Chavez and life in Venezuela today » Video about life in Venezuela and dictator Hugo Chavez. Ispired by the documentary "Revolucion" by Charles Gervais and sountracked by revolutionary LA band Rage Against The Machine.