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After the Moroccan interior ministry had decided to sue the daily Akhbar Al Yawm for publishing a cartoon on a Moroccan Prince’s wedding, the first instance court in Casablanca handed down a four-year suspended sentence to the director and...
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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...
made popular Nov 7 2009
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. ...
made popular Nov 5 2009
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...
made popular Oct 19 2009
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...
made popular Sep 2 2009
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...
made popular Aug 11 2009
As Venezuelans increasingly confront the consequences of Chavez’s “21st Century” through rampant inflation, decreased investment and a declining...
made popular Aug 7 2009
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...
made popular Jun 25 2009
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...
made popular Jun 2 2009
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...
made popular May 28 2009
Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
made popular May 25 2009
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...
made popular May 1 2009
Last night while marinating some chicken, I was watching the season finale of “Heroes.” During a tense climactic scene, the main villain uses his...
made popular Apr 29 2009
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...
made popular Apr 8 2009
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...
made popular Apr 4 2009
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...
made popular Mar 24 2009
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...
made popular Feb 2 2009
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...
made popular Jan 7 2009
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...
made popular Jan 6 2009
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...
made popular Jan 6 2009
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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Colombia is doing better than Venezuela, but still has a long way to go before the country can proudly say it is guaranteeing a freedom of press, prominent journalist...
made popular Oct 27 2009
We, the Indian, are very much interested in every issue now being exposed centering President Obama and the member of his Senate. India and America, two democratic...
made popular Oct 26 2009
Iran has shut down three daily newspapers critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, according to reports by state-run news agencies.
While no reason was given,...
made popular Oct 7 2009
Although the Brazilian constitution defends freedom of speech and Brazil has proclaimed itself a democratic nation, news released last Friday, July 31st, left many...
made popular Aug 3 2009
The BBC and CNN will be able to report freely from Zimbabwe for the first time in eight years after restrictions were lifted by the country’s...
made popular Jul 30 2009
Before we can take cognisance of the situation in Zimbabwe, we have to be aware that it is much easier to criticise when we are on the outside looking in, than for...
made popular Jul 3 2009
Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
made popular May 25 2009
Jim Salinger, one of New Zealand’s top climate scientists, has been fired from his job at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa)....
made popular May 4 2009
In today’s world parents always claim that they have given EXTRA freedom or the right to decide things in their life.
I would certainly not agree to this notion....
made popular Apr 15 2009
The call to abolish freedom of speech is the thin wedge of a religious war on civilization!
There is a reason the United States of America is reluctant to pay their...
made popular Mar 30 2009
I was watching a talk program with Michael Coren last night and his guest was a guy named Ezra Levant.
The name rang a bell and as I watched, and if what I heard was...
made popular Mar 26 2009
From The Times of India:
A 19-year-old blogger’s case could forever change the ground
rules of blogging. Bloggers may no longer express their uninhibited views...
made popular Feb 26 2009
Why is it that when non-Muslims criticize Islam we are called Islamaphobics and racists, and yet nothing is said when they call for death to the Jews and the West? Why...
made popular Jan 3 2009
Last week has shown us the freedom of speach in Czech Republic is not a respectable value for the representatives of liberal democracy, but just a limited right to...
made popular Oct 11 2008
The Afghan parliament has passed a bill making it a criminal offence to play music in parties and wedding ceremonies. For awhile a couple of years ago I believed that...
made popular Sep 24 2008
The 22 years old Moroccan Blogger Mohamed Erraji was arrested on the 5th of September over an article he wrote entitled “The King Encourages His Subject’s...
made popular Sep 14 2008
A couple of nights back, my dad shocks me with the news that my dearest government is considering (with much agree ability) to place certain restrictions on internet...
made popular Jun 25 2008
Many of us would be familiar with some of Lockheed Martin’s greatest hits: the F22, the F35, the F117, the Trident missile, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense...
made popular Jun 1 2008
The media maelstrom created by Bill Henson’s recent attempted exhibition reveals much more than just the most obvious issues relating to the contemporary cultural...
made popular May 29 2008
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