15 Mar 2011 | Uncategorized
As digital technology continues to transform the culture of activism and access to information – from revolution in Egypt to reporting on the secret services in Russia — Index on Censorship assesses the ways and means of using new media to get the word out and asks if the United States is internet freedom’s best friend.
Jillian C York Tools of resistance
Jamie Kirchick Surviving Lukashenko
Supinya Klangnarong Thai trials
David McNeill Pyongyang unwrapped
Saeed Valadbaygi Virtual community
Ivan Sigal Going local
Ashraf Khalil Route to revolution
Ben Bland Spring chill
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Maureen Freely The last days of Hrant Dink
Salwa Ismail Days of anger
David L Sobel WikiLeaks and the urge to classify
Kamila Shamsie Speak no evil
Charles Young Trouble in Malta
Martin Rowson’s Stripsearch
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9 Mar 2011 | Index Index, minipost, News
The families of political prisoners detained in Belarus after the 19 December election have instructed a London law firm to launch civil proceedings against the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko.
This is the first time that a serving president has faced a private prosecution for torture in a UK Court.
If the case is successful, any financial assets held by Lukashenko in Britain, or abroad, may be frozen to provide compensation.
London firm H20 Law will represent Free Belarus Now, a coalition of friends, families and supporters, of the victims of political repression in Belarus.
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8 Mar 2011 | Index Index, minipost
A Ukrainian court of appeal has prohibited any further attempts to identify the senior government officials alleged to be behind online journalist Georgiy Gongadze’s murder in 2000. The charge was lowered from “commissioned murder” to “murder on verbal orders”. This means that sanctions will apply only to the person who gave the orders and the person who committed the murder. The person alleged to have given the order was the then interior minister Yuri Kravchenko, who died in mysterious circumstances in 2005.
7 Mar 2011 | Comment, News
Apple should be part of the open online society, rather than the architects behind a system of control, argues Bill Thompson
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