Roj TV -a Kurdish TV station based in Denmark- has been found guilty of promoting terrorism by a Copenhagen Court last week. The TV station, which is allegedly linked to the Kurdistan armed-rebellion (PKK), has been suspended by its satellite provider. A Danish court last week levied a 5.2 million Danish crown ($894,800) fine […]
China: Tibet Burns, But Where Are the Chinese Public Intellectuals?
Written by Oiwan Lam Since 2009, there have been at least 17 Tibetan self-immolation incidents in China. The latest case was reported [1] [zh] on January 15, 2012. The public discussion about the protests of Tibetans has been manipulated and monopolized by state controlled media outlets who blame the Dalai Lama [2] and western media for […]
ICC Confirms Four Kenya Cases
Members of both political factions accused of responsibility for 2007-08 violence to stand trial. By Blake Evans-Pritchard – International Justice – ICC A decision to bring four suspects to trial at the International Criminal Court, ICC, for inciting violence in Kenya in 2007-08 has been widely welcomed by rights activists in the country. At […]
Egypt in danger of Muslim Brotherhood takeover
Reports and documents provided by an Israeli source exclusively to the Law Enforcement Examiner reveal a different picture of the Muslim Brotherhood than that being promulgated by Washington, DC insiders and denizens of America’s newsrooms. While members of the Obama Administration — including President Barack Obama himself — continue to spin the news coming out of […]
In Russia, Who is Restricting the Russian Internet?
Written by Marina Litvinovich, Global Voices On 18 April, 2011, American non-profit organisation Freedom House issued a report on Internet freedom in the world. The report, “Freedom on the Net 2011“ analyses freedom of access to the Internet in 2009-2010 in 37 countries. In the report (authored by Global Voices’ Alexey Sidorenko, editor of RuNet Echo), […]
In China, A Professor Tweets Elite Views on Dissident Liu Xiaobo
Charter 08 has been around for just over a year and has reportedly gathered more than 10,000 signatures. Liu Xiaobo, one of its founders, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Christmas Day last week. While most of the original 303 signatories to Charter 08 were prominent liberal mainland Chinese public intellectuals, the larger […]
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