Freedom of Expression / Censorship

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• UK : Julian Assange se marie en prison avec son ancienne avocate
  25 mars, par siawi3

  « Ce n’est pas un mariage en prison, c’est une déclaration d’amour et de résilience malgré les murs de la prison, malgré la persécution politique, malgré la détention arbitraire, malgré le mal et le harcèlement infligés à Julian et à notre famille ». Stella Moris.

• UK: Julian Assange posed PR problem for UK government’s media campaign
  25 March, by siawi3

  The UK’s treatment of Julian Assange posed a public relations problem for the Foreign Office’s media freedom campaign, files seen by Declassified UK show. According to a recent academic study, Julian Assange “was by far the most frequently discussed individual on Twitter” with regards to the Media Freedom Coalition. “Numerous tweets highlighted the apparent irony that the UK was establishing and leading an international initiative on media freedom, while simultaneously undermining free media…in their handling of Assange”, the researchers found.

• Australia: A bomb in every download - Julian Assange against the world
  26 March, by siawi3

  WikiLeaks has not come out of the blue. It is a product of our time and would not have succeeded without the climate created by the corporatising of information and the ‘war on terror’. Governments increasingly want to control information, corporations increasingly want to own information, and the media is increasingly unable to give the public the information that they need. WikiLeaks, as an electronic commons for free information, is a way around that undemocratic information lock.

• UK: Join us Sunday 10/04/2022 Marking 3 years from the brutal and arbitrary arrest of Julian Assange on 11/04/2019.
  28 March, by siawi3

  Join our Protests as and when you can on the 10^th of April.

• Russia’s War on Journalists
  28 March, by siawi3

  Popular Russian journalists facing criminal charges

• Russie : « Novaïa Gazeta », journal indépendant russe, suspend ses publications
  28 mars, par siawi3

  Fondée en 1993, Novaïa Gazeta jouit d’une grande réputation pour ses enquêtes sur la corruption et les atteintes aux droits humains en Tchétchénie. Cet engagement a coûté la vie à six de ses collaborateurs, dont la célèbre journaliste Anna Politkovskaïa, assassinée en 2006. La décision intervient à la suite d’un second avertissement du service russe de supervision des télécoms. « Novaïa Gazeta » faisait figure de dernier bastion de la presse libre encore en activité en Russie.

• Russia Conducting ’Witch Hunt’ Against War Critics, Says Amnesty
  31 March, by siawi3

  “This heinous campaign of repression against critics of the state who are bravely standing up against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must stop now,” the human rights group said. Thousands of anti-war demonstrators have been arrested inside Russia since Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, and rights groups have accused Moscow of brutalizing detained protesters in an effort to squash dissent.

• UK: Priti Patel was part of CIA-linked lobby group with husband of Assange judge
  31 March, by siawi3

  Home Secretary Priti Patel, who will soon decide whether to extradite Julian Assange to the US, has been a political adviser to – and been funded by – a right-wing lobby group which has attacked Assange in the British media for a decade.

• Tunisian journalists’ union announces general strike on April 2 to defend press freedoms
  1 April, by siawi3

  The announcement of the journalists’ general strike came a day before government authorities detained a local news reporter at Mosaique FM under anti-terrorism laws

• Algérie : Fermeture annoncée du quotidien Liberté
  3 avril, par siawi3

  Conscients de l’apport du journal Liberté à la vie culturelle, sociale et sociétale du pays, nous appelons à sa préservation. Nous appelons à la responsabilité de tous pour que vive Liberté.

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