Censorship · January, 2020

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Censorship · January, 2020

Stories about Censorship from January, 2020

Citizens from Chinese city on lockdown roar ‘Beijing has abandoned Wuhan!’

'I am terrified by the situation in Wuhan'

Written by Oiwan Lam

26 January 2020

Morocco intensifies crackdown on freedom of expression

Two rappers have recently been jailed

Written by Afef Abrougui

24 January 2020

The real reasons people are fleeing Honduras

Let's get beyond the overused trope of 'violence and poverty'

Written by Melissa Vida

24 January 2020

Pakistani director halts release of award-winning film after receiving threats

Conservatives allege that it wrongfully portrays clerics

Written by Annie Zaman

22 January 2020

Kazakh family of writers and musicians caught in the Xinjiang vortex

Three siblings in camps and nobody to care for their elderly mother

Written by Mehmet Volkan, Chris Rickleton

22 January 2020

In preparation for the Lunar New Year mass migration, China finally gets serious about the Wuhan coronavirus

Initial rumors of a new form of coronavirus are being confirmed globally and, albeit reluctantly, by Beijing.

Written by Oiwan Lam

22 January 2020

Is Russia getting its model for digital authoritarianism from China?

Interview with assistant professor Maria Repnikova on the parallels between digital governance in Russia and China

Written by Filip Noubel

21 January 2020

Baul singer Shariat Sarkar arrested in Bangladesh for ‘insulting’ Islam

He challenged the claim that music is forbidden in Islam

Written by পান্থ রহমান রেজা (Pantha)

Translated by Rezwan

20 January 2020

CGNet Swara is using Bluetooth to source content and share news with Indian villages

Can people use Bluetooth to share news?

Written by Rezwan

18 January 2020

New privacy law in Mozambique threatens freedom of expression, activists say

Citizens could be prosecuted for sharing images without consent

Written by Dércio Tsandzana, Liam Anderson

16 January 2020

Thai journalist convicted over a 2017 Twitter post about a labor conflict

"There is a high level of self-censorship in Thailand… When you forbid freedom of expression… you forbid an open society."

Written by Mong Palatino

11 January 2020

Guatemalan indigenous journalist charged with terrorism released from prison

Francisco Lucas joins a growing list of persecuted journalists and activists in the country

Written by Melissa Vida

10 January 2020

‘A disturbing crackdown on press freedom’: Pakistan arbitrarily blocking Slate.com

The latest ban has been in effect since November 2, 2019

Written by Hija Kamran

4 January 2020

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