Archive for July, 2011
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Date: Thursday 28 July
Time: 4.30 – 6.30pm
Venue: Platform, 260 Hornsey Road, London N7 7QT
Tickets: Free
We all like to think of ourselves as free – free to think, free to feel, free to speak our mind.
But how much do we take this right for granted and what would happen if it were taken away?
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
Two cars belonging to
Vijesti, one of
Montenegro‘s most popular independent daily newspapers, were torched last Thursday. The cars were parked opposite the headquarters of the Montenegrin Intelligence Agency when the attack took place. One
eyewitness reported seeing a young man pour petrol on the cars and throw a spark towards them but police have yet to make an arrest. Vijesti is one of the two biggest Montenegrin newspapers and reports regularly on corruption and government malpractice.
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Three nuns have each been jailed for three year after they staged a peaceful street protest, chanting “
Free Tibet” and “long live His Holiness the Dalai Lama”, on 15 June. The women, aged between 21 and 31, are part of the Gyemadrak Nunnery in
Tibet and were
arrested by Chinese authorites hours after the protest began. The nuns have been named as Jampa Choedon, Sheh Lhamo and Tashi Choetso.
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Rana Yaseen and Ch Khalid Sardar claim they were “tortured and harassed” on the night of 16 July in the Bahalwapur region of
Pakistan. Local journalists have since
staged a protest outside the regional Press Club and are demanding immediate investigation. The Abbas Nagar Police have “registered a case” against 10 men accused of taking part in the attack but their names have not been released.
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Letter to Ayatollah Larijani
from Index on Censorship, Article 19, Committee to Protect Journalists,
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
A 26-year-old radio station director was killed yesterday in
Honduras. Nery Jeremias Orellana was stopped and shot in the head by masked gunmen as he rode home from work on a motorcycle. He died soon after he was taken to a local hospital. A supporter of recently ousted
President Manuel Zelaya, Orellana was head of
Radio Joconguera de Candelaria and was a member of the National Resistance Front.
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Saodat Omonova, one of two women journalists protesting media censorship in
Uzbekistan, has ended her hunger strike after being
hospitalised earlier this week. It had been 16 days since Omonova and colleague, Malohat Eshonqulova, had begun their hunger strike after they were
arrested and fined for protesting outside the presidential palace. The pair were
were fired from state television channel Yoshlar last December, three days after they staged protests against media censorship. They are still fighting a court battle to appeal their initial dismissal.
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Authorities are intent on stifling calls for free elections, says Malik Imtiaz Sarwar
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