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US DoJ serves Twitter in bid to nail WikiLeaks
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Rohan Jayasekera
Rohan Jayasekera
Rohan Jayasekera is a journalist, editor and online free expression advocate, tracking human rights, digital media, cultures of change and the conflict zeitgeist.
Tunisia: The Middle East’s first cyberwar
Conventional wisdom suggests that the web’s power to drive social revolution is over-rated, but the Tunisian government still isn’t taking any chances. Its agents are hacking its opponents’ networks and sabotaging them, even as foreign hackers retaliate against the state. Rohan Jayasekera reports
Fresh eyes needed on WikiLeaks’ treasure trove of secrets
With maybe hundreds of human rights activists named in the WikiLeaks files, and frontman Julian Assange threatening to throw them open to the world, it’s time for fair assessment of the potential threat to free expression advocates argues
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Politicised Tunis judges get a light sentence
Tunisian judges meet Sunday (19 December) with their rights controlled by a state that has not hesitated to exile, discipline or dock the wages of colleagues who object to its political interference. What will they do about this? Not much.
Wikileaks may confirm military's true attitude to aid teams
Rohan Jayasekera: Wikileaks may confirm military’s true attitude to aid teams
Playing fast and loose with justice in Tunisia
Rohan Jayasekera: Playing fast and loose with justice in Tunisia
Foreign Office report on human rights skims over UK record
Focus, partnership and joined-up advocacy in defence of human rights – the UK Foreign Office’s lost vocation, as revealed by the diplomats’ own annual report.
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Secret police prove Maliki's new "authoritarianism"
Rohan Jayasekera: The use of so-called “insult laws” to censor legitimate criticism of a country’s leader is a tool of authoritarian regimes everywhere, and now, it seems Iraq too.
Journalist attacked in Tunisia
Rohan Jayasekera: an assault on Slim Boukdhir has come hot on the heels of Tunisia’s dubious presidential election result
International groups call on EU to push for media rights in Belarus
Belarus: International media and press freedom organisations, including Index on Censorship have issued a report calling for far reaching reforms of the media in Belarus.
Tony Harrison and Zarganar share PEN/Pinter Prize
Rohan Jayasekera at an inspiring evening for free expression
An audience with the Iron Lady of Minsk
Rohan Jayasekera encounters the imperious and elegant first deputy head of the Belarus presidential administration, Natalia Petkevich, Minsk’s Iron Lady of censorship.