As Twitter, Facebook and Research in Motion prepare to meet the Home Secretary, Index on Censorship and other human and digital rights campaigners ask to be included in discussions on social media blackouts
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Joint letter to Home Secretary on social media blackouts
As Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry prepare to meet the home secretary, Index on Censorship and other human and digital rights campaigners ask to be included in discussions on social media blackouts
By Marta Cooper
25 Aug 11
By Marta Cooper
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The harassment of Chinese-Australian artist, political cartoonist and activist Badiucao must end
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UK court rejects Home Office bid to hear Apple encryption case in secret
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UN working group on arbitrary detention declares that Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi’s detention violated international law
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