Two journalists have been released after paying an undisclosed “heavy fine” at a Namibian court after being arrested for filming the annual seal cull, which involves clubbing seal pups to death. Jim Wilckens from the UK and South African cameraman Bart Smithers were allegedly attacked with clubs by seal hunters before being arrested. Read more here
An Iranian boycott of Nokia will not stop surveillance, say Leslie Harris and John Morris. But it may make telecommunications companies think twice about doing business with oppressive regimes
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Dimi Reider speaks to Walid Omary, Jerusalem bureau chief for al Jazeera, about the Palestinian Authority’s decision to shut down the station’s Ramallah bureau
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On 16 July in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a crowd of mourners, mostly women, following a minivan containing the body of murdered human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was dispersed by police.
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