Archive for June, 2011
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Journalist and political leader, Edinaldo Figueira, was
shot to death on 15 June. He founded a Brazilian newspaper and was president of a branch of the Workers’ Party in Brazil’s northern state of Rio Grande do Norte. He also
blogged regularly on local politics. It is rumoured Figueira’s killing is retribution for his recent blogpost critizing city officials.
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Syrian anti-government protesters in London have received threatening phone calls and house visits from Syrian embassy officials, they claim. Though the protesters cannot be arrested by embassy officials, the government can threaten to detain family and relatives in Syria or arrest them if they return to Syria. The Syrian embassy has denied the claims.
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Afaq.tv cameraman, Salem Alwan Al-Gharabi,
was killed in a suicide bomb attack in southern
Iraq on Tuesday. At least 27 people were killed in the
double car bomb attack outside a government compound in Diwaniya, a city 275 km south of Baghdad. Al-Gharabi had gone to cover the regional council’s weekly meeting when he was killed in the blast.
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Activists have attacked the Army Radio with a bizarre phone message scam, reports Daniella Peled
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
Sudanese media faces heavy government intervention: this year has already seen the arrest of more than 30 journalists and a popular newspaper prevented from printing five times, reports Abdelgadir Mohamed Abdelgadir
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
A website allowing
Chinese citizens to blow the whistle on official bribery, www.ibribery.com, has been
shut down. Site creator Chen Hong copied the idea from Indian site
ipaidabribe.com. Censors blocked access to Hong’s site after it received 200, 000 unique visitors in just two weeks. The 28 year old PR consultant then closed the site, fearing repercussions from the authorities. Several other bribery sites, which appeared soon after Hong’s, have also been shut down.
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Swazi journalist Mancoba Nxumalo was
held by police on Wednesday (22 June) and accused of “tarnishing” the Kingdom’s image, he has claimed. The journalist believes he was targeted for arranging interviews for South African broadcaster SABC with two Swazi activists jailed over pro-democracy protests in April. He said that police told him he had “conspired with the SABC to tarnish the county’s image”.
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
The controversial Dutch politician has avoided punishment for expressing his views on Islam. But his trials are far from over, writes Sander Zurhake
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