22 Apr 2010 | Index Index, minipost, Uncategorized
Ilham Tohti, Uighur academic and PEN member has been banned from attending a Turkic Culture conference in Izmir, Turkey. Reports claim police officials arrived at his Beijing home on 15 April and warning him against making the trip. Tohti had already received his Turkish visa, and permission to attend the conference from Beijing’s Central Nationalities University, where he is the associated professor of Economics. He was previously detained during the Xinjiang riots last year.
22 Apr 2010 | Index Index, minipost, Uncategorized
Hindu Yuva Sangh burnt copies of the leading Nepali newspapers, Kantipur and Annapurna Post on 18 April in the southern city of Birgunj. The newly formed group —- which advocates the restoration of Nepal’s Hindu nation status — torched hundreds of copies of the dailies, claiming they did not cover relevant issues pertaining to the HYS.
22 Apr 2010 | Index Index, minipost, Uncategorized
Georgino Orellana, a producer and presenter for Television de Honduras, is the seventh journalist to be murdered in Honduras in the past six weeks. Orellana had just left the station’s studios in San Pedro Sula last night, when he was shot dead by an unidentified person. The motive is still unknown but police chief Hector Ivan Mejia insists that this murder “won’t go unpunished.” Honduras has been the world’s deadliest country for the media since the start of this year and, although the criminal violence across the country had always been high, the coup significantly implemented the plight of journalists.
22 Apr 2010 | Uncategorized
The nice people at the top skeptic show The Pod Delusion helped out at last night’s Libel Reform Campaign Free Speech Hustings, providing a live audiostream to the world, and now creating a lovely podcast for you to listen to in case you missed last night.
You can hear it here
