Stories from 12 August 2006
Cuba: The pierced guy
Daniel Mauermann‘s “Cuba People” photoset on Flickr includes many striking images, but none more striking than this. As Daniel explains in an e-mail: The pierced guy is a poor handicapped who once decided to make good money putting as much needles in his head as possible. Every day he is...
Vietnam: Internet Censorship
Gina Maranto at Kaironews points to an audio program an a report on Internet Censorship in Vietnam.
Breastfeeding Day and Indonesian Minister Blog on Middle-East Conflict
When citizen journalists or ‘ordinary’ bloggers are making political statements on current Middle East conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, they are usually talking with their hearts. They write whatever they want to write without any consideration of impacts. But when a minister of the largest Muslim country in the world...
Iran: Photos & Released syndicate leader
Kosoof, photoblogger and journalist has published several photos of Mansour Osanloo, leader of bus drivers’ syndicate after being released from jail. He had been arrested at the beginning of this year after leading a bus strike in Tehran.
Iran: USA deported Iranian Scientists
We read in Nikahang's blog that US deported visa-holding Iranian scientists on arrival. The blogger says US government funded Iran human rights documentation center can investigate this event [Fa].