15 April 2007

Stories from 15 April 2007

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.

15 April 2007

Iran:Two women activists are out of jail

According to Varsh[Fa],two women activists, Nahid Keshvarz and Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, are out of jail.They were arrested about two weeks ago when explaining people One Million Signatures Campaign.This campaign wants to...

15 April 2007

Lebanon: Remembering the Civil War

April 13, 1975 is officially the date when the Lebanese civil war began. It lasted for 15 years and it officially ended in 1990 after the Taif agreement. More than...

15 April 2007

Bahrain: One-Family Spirit

Blogger Chanad Bahraini scorns Press reports praising Bahrain's one-family spirit and posts pictures of demonstrations in which police clash with villagers. ‘The “one-family spirit”, it would seem, is the notion...

15 April 2007

Bahrain: Speeding Engineer Released

The German engineer responsible for building the Bahrain International Circuit, which is hosting the F1 today, was caught speeding in Bahrain, reports blogger Mahmood Al Yousif. He was apparently released...

15 April 2007

Bahrain: Support for Paper

“(W)ould any of their honourable MP’s care to ask Minister of Finance about why did the Undersecretary of Finance instruct Bahrain Development Bank (whose funds come in part from the...

15 April 2007