Stories about Digital Activism from April, 2007
Nepal: Bloggers Form Association
Twenty-four bloggers from capital Kathmandu gathered on Saturday April 21 to discuss the formation of Bloggers Association of Nepal (BLOGAN) for the promotion and protection of blogs and blogging in the tiny Himalayan country where blogs are yet to be recognized by the population.
Hong Kong: Internet Article 23
A group of netizens have organized a new BBS forum: article23.net. The organizers compared the proposal in the government digital copyright consultation as the notorious article 23 in Basic Law which led to half a milion people demonstration in 2003. The BBS forum is to share information concerning digital copyright...
Interview with the Blogger, adam_kesher
Adil Nurmakov is a 28-year old political scientist and a journalist from Almaty, who started as a blogger in 2004. He writes his own Livejournal adam_kesher (ru) and is a regular author on neweurasia. Recently, Adil wrote an open letter to the mayor of Almaty about the situation with the...
Online Freedom for All: Some cases worth supporting
In my last article, “Lessons from the Free Kareem campaign”, I talked about campaigning and why some jailed and persecuted bloggers and online writers are winning sympathy, while others have difficulty attracting the attention of the public. I also discussed the logic behind the success or the failure of campaigning,...
Moldova: Village of Tarnova
Scraps of Moscow links to the “outstanding” website of the Moldovan village of Tarnova.
Egypt: From Kareem to Mahmood
Egyptian blogger and Muslim Brotherhood member Abdul Monem Mahmood has been arrested for articles he posted online. A blogger argues that he is not getting as much attention as another Egyptian blogger - Kareem Nabeel Sulaiman - who was sentenced to four years for insulting Islam.
Iraq: Saudi Cyber Activist Jailed
“A week ago the Saudi Arabia government closed Islammemo website ..its moderator Soyan Alhajeri in jail, the reason behind this action is still unknown but the only available information is the closure of website and jailing Alhajiri was a request from the Iraqi “Green Zone” government,” writes Iraqi blogger Lady...
China: MeMedia Issue 4: Copyright Kills Creation, Life's Precious, Ching Ming Festival
This week comes the fourth issue from the newly-formed MeMedia roundup of all that's hot around the Chinese blogsphere including the upcoming Taiwan Bloggers BoF, copyright discussion in Hong Kong, kickback cost of medicine in China, in memory of the deads in Ching Ming Festival and much more. [技术和互联网 2007...
Russia: Listening In On the Police; St. Pete Rally
Garry Kasparov’s aide, LJ user abstract2001, has posted recordings of the walkie-talkie conversations of riot police officers deployed for the opposition’s Dissenters’ Marches in Moscow on April 14 and in St. Petersburg on April 15. Also, below are some links to photos and text from the rally in St. Petersburg, which ended with the riot police attacking peaceful protesters.
Slovenia: “Stay Away from Media Temple!”
The Glory of Carniola gets cheated by his web hosting company, which prompts a number of fellow-bloggers from the region to start the “Stay Away from Media Temple!” campaign.
Russia: Dissenters’ March in Moscow (2)
There is a lot of media coverage of the post-Dissenters' March developments, but here is a bit more of what Russian bloggers write about the April 14 Moscow rally itself, as well as links to their photos.
China: Community embraces orphan
Late last month, a husband-wife migrant laborer couple from China's poverty-stricken Henan province working in Beijing killed themselves, leaving two teenage children to fend for themselves. Last week, Beijing-based Sohu blogger Li Yuanyuan took her camera and went to the younger child's school to see how the community has reacted.
Taiwan: DIY media activist workshop
Inertia from Heterotopias announced the DIY media activist workshop to be help in Taipei end of April [zh]. Details can be found here (en and zh Bilingual site): “There will be several experienced media activists attend this workshop from Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea, including the non-profit art-technology organization and...
Bahrain: Blogger's Hearing Postponed
The hearing of a libel case against Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif has been deferred until May 8 because the judge's mother passed away. Al Yousif is being sued for describing a minister as an imbecile.
Russia: Dissenters’ March Photos by Dmitry Shubin
Forty-eight pages of photographs from the Dissenters’ March in St. Petersburg this past Sunday – in a .pdf album (available for download here) created by LJ user studio204 (St. Petersburg-based Russian photographer Dmitry Shubin).
Russia: Dissenters’ March in Moscow (1)
The volume of blog coverage of the weekend's opposition rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg is truly overwhelming - as overwhelming, perhaps, as the number of riot police deployed from all over Russia to disperse these rallies - but nowhere near as shocking.
Arabeyes: Egyptian Blogger Abdul Monem Mahmood Arrested
Egyptian blogger Abdul Monem Mahmood (Arabic) is the latest in a string of bloggers arrested by Egyptian authorities. He is being detained under custody for 15 days as charges are drawn up against him. The Muslim Brotherhood blogger, journalist and television presenter was detained early Sunday morning, amid conflicting stories...
Arabeyes: Bahraini Blogger in Court Tomorrow
This is Mahmood Al Yousif, the God Father of Bahraini bloggers, who is being sued by a Bahraini Minister for comments he published online. Mediations between the two parties failed, and the case is now being heard by the Higher Criminal Court tomorrow. Even the meek Bahraini Journalists Association is...
Israel: Jewish Blog Awards
Israeli blogger Danya Ruttenberg announces that the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards are taking nominations until Thursday. “You read Jewish blogs; tell them which ones you think are the best,” she adds.
Interview with Kazis Toguzbayev, Journalist/Blogger from Kazakhstan
Kazis Toguzbayev is a Kazakhstani journalist/blogger, who was sued for insulting the honor and the dignity of the president in January 2007 when he uploaded two articles on a group blog KUB.kz. Kazis is 59, married and has grandchildren. He is a colonel of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan in reserve and a pensioner for 10 years now. We spoke about the lessons that he learned after the trial and about the citizen journalism in Kazakhstan.
Taiwan: Bloggers’ Further Action on Saving Losheng Sanatorium
As mentioned in the previous post, discussions and actions on saving Lo-Sheng Sanatorium have widely spread in Taiwan blogosphere. Now the whole event has also attracted attention from mainstream media, the public, and politicians. Bloggers’ actions: In addition to discussions and collaboration over their blogs, several bloggers decided to take...
