The 403 Access Denied Checker has been designed to help activists in nations with extensive online censorship to test local blockages. The software aims to make it easy for any one to quickly check a huge number of URLs and share the result with the public. Its main goal is help get feedback for people with no access to experts, who are living under repressive regimes.
The National Union of Somali Journalists has reported that four journalists have been injured after press conference was hit by artillery fire in southern Mogadishu. Read more here
Yrysbek Omurzakov, the chief editor of an independent newspaper in Kyrgyzstan, Tribuna, has been assualted by three men who mentioned his paper’s journalistic output. Read more here
While even the most tyrannical regime will pay lip service to free speech, it is a right that is constantly denied
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