Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Freedom of Speech from January 2008

Freedom of Speech · January, 2008
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Stories about Freedom of Speech from January, 2008

31 January 2008

30 January 2008

Russia: Khodorkovsky on Hunger Strike

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

Russia: Internet Regulations

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

China: Hu Jia's family become human “state secrets”

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

And likely very skinny ones at this point, having been locked away from journalists and lawyers and bringers of milk formula for over a month now. Since AIDS activist-turned house...

Yemen: Free Kareem Site Blocked

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Egypt: TV Producer Howida Taha Arrested

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

29 January 2008

Belarus, Latvia: “Ploshcha”

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

Bermuda: Police-Blogger Suspended

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

China: Mobile Surveillance Shock?

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

Tunisia: Four Lebanese Jailed for Facebook Remark

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

28 January 2008

Russia: Kasyanov and Invalid Signatures

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

Iran:”Women Magazine” was banned

Written by Fred Petrossian · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Egypt: Abu Tarika

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Middle East & North Africa

Sports and politics? Eman Abd Al Rahman sheds light on how an Egyptian football player manages to make his voice count on the soccer field.

Thailand: Book on Coup Banned

Written by Preetam Rai · Quick Reads · East Asia

China: Auditing Device for Censorship

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

25 January 2008

Yemen blocks independent news websites

Written by sami ben gharbia · Middle East & North Africa

Numerous Yemeni websites have been blocked recently by government-controlled ISPs. Among them is the popular YemenPortal, Yemen’s first multi-source news crawler and search engine, which extracts headlines from news sites...