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The world ranking for freedom of press in 175 countries as reported by French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF), earlier this month, has some surprises. Brazil went up 11 slots and several Europeans countries like France and Italy are not as exemplary..
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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As though the world isn’t messed up enough with struggling world economies, violence everywhere, we also have Muslim extremism infecting the world with fear. ...
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Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one...
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George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet...
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The 20-year-old student spoke softly but firmly as she described how a dispute over grades led to her rape at an unofficial jail.
She had been expelled from college...
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As Venezuelans increasingly confront the consequences of Chavez’s “21st Century” through rampant inflation, decreased investment and a declining...
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Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
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Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly...
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Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the...
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Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
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Here is the dishonorable list of the Ten Worst countries for bloggers. The list is not surprising, not the inclusion of Tunisia or China.
It is in these countries...
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Last night while marinating some chicken, I was watching the season finale of “Heroes.” During a tense climactic scene, the main villain uses his...
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Mexico is infamous for being one of the most dangerous countries for journalists and since 2000 already 20 have been killed and 8 kidnapped. These are the statistics of...
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The Freedom on the Net Index has ranked Tunisia second only to Cuba and on par with China in censoring the Internet. The Tunisian government is notorious for blocking...
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Yesterday I titled a post “Is Dubai Becoming The Next Saudi Arabia?” The post concerned the soon-to-be legally enforced code of conduct in Duabi whose...
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Imagine being jailed for simply blogging about your conversion to Christianity or for criticizing your government or your religion, but this is exactly what is...
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Earlier this week, China announced that it was taking action against the main search websites including Google and Baidu. Baidu has apologized for the published...
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China, since last month, has gone another step further and has begun accusing sites like Google for displaying morally controversial items such as pornography and...
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Though some articles have completely horrified me, with racist remarks and hateful messages, I don’t think they should be edited or altered in anyway, they...
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The chief of police in Passau, part of the eastern German state of Bavaria, was recently stabbed and almost killed by a neo-Nazi. Messer Alois Mannichl had made...
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Hugo Chavez’s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services —...
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Israel often likes to brag that it is ostensible “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Considering that this “democracy” is a...
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The Moroccan Interior ministry decided to sue the daily newspaper Akhbar Al-Yawm and seize it after publishing a caricature about the royal family and using David star...
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President Cristina Fernandez on Friday proposed decriminalizing libel and slander as a way of “guaranteeing even more” freedom of expression in...
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George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet...
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Chavez’s government is “moving forcefully to silence critics,” said the unclassified U.S. analysis prepared by the Open Source Center, a U.S....
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As Venezuelans increasingly confront the consequences of Chavez’s “21st Century” through rampant inflation, decreased investment and a declining...
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The news editor of Zambia’s largest independent newspaper has gone on trial accused of distributing obscene images.
Chansa Kabwela sent two photographs of a...
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More than a dozen of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his...
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Here is the Tunisia that Ben Ali does not want you to see:
“Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard wrote to Tunisian justice...
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Did you read this very shocking news? Many of you must have seen this headline in an Indian newspaper: Footwear store in Geneva uses Buddha statue to hang shoes....
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Any hope that an ever more prosperous China would slowly lead to an opening in the realm of free expression and all the consequences thereof were given a setback this...
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China’s top legislature Monday reviewed for the first time a draft revision to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, underlining the cutoff of Internet or other...
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It is troubling enough that Italy’s rhetorically offensive Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi comes from a family that controls “half the television output,...
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Amid repeated threats by President Hugo Chavez to shut down the Globovision television station, government prosecutors Thursday indicted the station’s main owner...
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Tiananmen Square, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you all are familiar with and so is with censorship in china. Freedom of expression is something that...
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Two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China’s censors moved today to limit the access of the country’s increasingly...
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