Stories from 12 August 2005
Israel: ISM activist’s killer sentenced to eight years in prison
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) reports that over two years after he killed British Peace activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza, Ex-sergeant Taysir Hayb was sentenced to eight years in prison by an Israeli military court.
Cambodia: The Living Blogs of Cambodia
ThaRum's web has a great overview of the exploding Cambodian blog scene.
Armenia: Parties Dissolved
Blogrel notes that six political parties in Armenia will be dissolved shortly, and wonders if it's legit.
Niger: Tanja fiddles while Niger burns
President Tanja Mamadou of Niger has denied that there's a famine in his country, stating instead that it's only a “food emergency”, reports Black Star Journal.
Saudi Arabia: Khamis Mushayt Girl
The much-missed Saudi blogger behind The Religious Policeman is back. Amongst other things, he had this observation on the Saudi Justice System: The 26-year-old mother of three, called the ‘Khamis Mushayt Girl’, convicted of murdering a man six years ago is scheduled to be executed next Thursday… The details are...
Chad: Habré Henchmen Ousted
Human Rights Watch's news blog is reporting that six henchman of Chad's former dictator Hissène Habré have been ousted from positions in government. "The Chadian government’s move follows a report last month by Human Rights Watch naming these six and 35 other leading Habré-era figures, many accused of torture and killings, who still hold key posts in Chad. Those dismissed include the powerful director of the Judicial Police who was deputy director of national security under Habré; a surveillance chief who was the director of Habré’s dreaded political police, the Documentation and Security Directorate (DDS); and a man described by a Chadian truth commission as one of Chad’s 'most feared torturers.' It is believed that more sackings may be forthcoming."
Iranian Bloggers speaking out on jailed journalist and Kurdistan
Yesterday hunderds of Ganji's supporters held a Peaceful Protest
Bahrain: Imam on Strike!
Mohammed Elzubeir from UAE, points to the war of words between Sunni and Shiite religious scholars at Bahrain, over the right to suspend the Friday prayers where it looks like some Imam (the person who leads a prayer in a mosque) decided to suspend a Friday's prayer in protest for...
United Arab Emirates: Peaceful Journey
On his return from London to Dubai, The Secret Blog Of Arabia hopes not to get followed by the police, MI5 , MI6 , CIA , etc., on the Underground or in the Heathrow Airport, or by Dubai Police for writing blogs about the UAE or for holding a British...
Global Links, Global Influence – a Global Voices update
“This is why I read Global Voices Online. It’s the best place to find local stories from around the world blogged by people actually experiencing it.” – Mike Cohen, /dev/random, from a post titled “We Won't Hear About This in the Mainstream Media” I spent yesterday taking a close look...
Trinidad & Tobago: Bombing Suspect in Custody
Taran Rampersad posts an update about this week's bombing in Trinidad. "It seems that a suspect has been held in the explosion on George St. here in Trinidad, but with so many copycats in Trinidad and Tobago, it's difficult to say that this is also a suspect for the initial bombing," he writes.
Launch of the Mobcasting Developers Forum
Because of the positive feedback I've received around the creation of a low-cost, open source strategy for recording and receiving podcasts over mobile phones, I've set up a new email list and Web community for people interested in making this happen. There are already free tools like audioblogger and audlink that will let you post podcasts from your phone, but both require a long-distance phone call to the US, and neither let you listen to podcasts from your phone. I want to develop a tool that can be installed anywhere in the world, so all of this can be done on a local phone call. To learn more about mobcasting, please visit this blog entry I wrote last January, entitled When Mobile Podcasting Leads to Mobcasting to see where this all got started. The email list will be focused solely on this project; people who join the list should be interested in mobile phone podcasting and be willing to help us make this project happen. To join the list, please send an email to mobcasting-subscribe [[at]] yahoogroups . com, with the spaces and brackets removed. Or, you can visit the Mobcasting list homepage. Meanwhile, I've also created a DDN community that we can use as a workspace. The workspace has bulletin boards, document sharing and blog posting. Group members are welcome to post web resources, blog entries or files to this public page. We can also add news, events and feature stories to the site if they become useful at some point. Looking forward to making this happen! -andy