Witnessing Azerbaijan’s autocracy in action, Mike Harris reports from the Internet Governance Forum
Letter from Baku
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Golden Dawn’s unholy alliance
It started with an arrest so farcical the facts seem to defy belief. In October, a 27-year-old man on the Greek island of Evia was arrested and charged with "blasphemy and insults against Elder Paisios and Orthodox Christianity" for setting up a...
Internet freedom? Not in Azerbaijan
IGF | Azerbaijan’s government locks up its online critics on trumped-up charges so it is an odd choice to host a giant international forum on internet freedom. Rebecca Vincent explains
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Greece: Another journalist arrested as crackdown continues
Greek journalist Spiros Karatzaferis was arrested today (31 October) for after threatening to publish damaging allegations about the country's struggling economy. Karatzaferis said he had obtained information from hacking collective Anonymous,...
Polish rocker faces religious offence charge
Polish heavy metal singer Adam Darski, AKA Nergal, could face two years in prison for tearing a bible on stage. Nergal, singer with Behemoth, performed the stunt in 2007, before descrbing the Catholic church as ""the most murderous cult on the...
“Journalists will be persecuted until power in Russia changes”
Mikhail Afanasyev is a veteran of the libel courts. As one of the few independent journalists in Russia’s Urals he has faced 13 defamation suits in 15 years, and won every one. Afanasyev edits an online newspaper, New Focus, and reports to Glasnost...
Greece: Free speech faces abyss
The arrest of editor Kostas Vaxevanis for exposing Swiss bank account holders is just the latest attack on free speech in Greece. Democracy itself is in danger, say Asteris Masouras and Veroniki Krikoni
Former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov gets UK asylum
Andrei Sannikov, a former political prisoner from Belarus, has been granted asylum in the UK. Sannikov told the Charter97 website: It was not a simple decision for me. But I had no other choice --- other options were to be tortured and humiliated...