Freedom of Expression / Censorship

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• Algérie : pour la 1^re fois islamistes contre évangélistes en Grande Kabylie
  27 décembre 2009, par siawi2
  Tizi Ouzou
  Affrontement entre islamistes et chrétiens
  La wilaya de Tizi Ouzou a enregistré ce matin, le premier « affrontement » entre « évangélistes » et islamistes. En effet, ce qui était prévisible depuis quelques années, s’est réalisé à la cité Bekkar de  (...)
• Gambie: appel à l’action pour la libération des défenseures des droits
  16 October 2010, by siawi2
  URGENT: Gambie : Les défenseuses des droits humains des femmes Isatou Touray et Amie Bojang-Sissoho ont été interpellées et mises en détention
  Déclaration de WLUML et la Campagne mondiale «Arrêtons de tuer et de lapider les femmes » (Campagne SKSW) sur  (...)
• USA: Prominent atheists defend their right to free expression
  22 April 2017, by siawi3

  Outspoken atheists on faith and belief.

• Outspoken Maldives Blogger Who Challenged Radical Islamists Is Killed.
  24 April 2017, by siawi3

  “A brave voice, brutally silenced,” former President Mohamed Nasheed said. A liberal blogger who wrote satirical critiques of the Maldivian government and the spread of radical Islam died Sunday after being stabbed in the stairway of his apartment building. The blogger, Yameen Rasheed, 29, had complained repeatedly to the police about receiving death threats, he said in an interview with The New York Times this year, adding that the police often failed to return his calls or dropped his complaints without investigation.

• Mauritanie : Le coût du ’blasphème’
  11 août 2019, par siawi3

  Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir a été remis en liberté après plus de cinq ans de détention. Il avait été condamné à mort en 2014 pour un article publié sur internet et considéré comme blasphématoire envers le prophète Mahomet. Avant sa sortie de prison, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir a dû se repentir publiquement à la télévision. Une condition posée par les imams et oulémas pour sa libération.

• A chapter closes: last Hong Kong bookshop selling titles banned in China shuts
  14 November 2018, by siawi3

  Human rights activists and publishers have raised grave concerns over the closure of the People’s Bookstore, a tiny shop in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay district, known to be the last source of literary contraband in the city, in the latest example of China’s tightening pressure over the city. “Hong Kong used to be a window onto China, a sanctuary for books that tell the truth about the mainland. But freedom of expression and of the press have been significantly eroded in recent years, and the closure of bookshops selling banned books is a further example of this.”

• USA: Julian Assange Indicted ?
  18 November 2018, by siawi3

  The arguments justifying the Trump administration’s prosecution of Assange are grounded in a combination of legal ignorance, factual falsehoods, and dangerous authoritarianism. They’re willing to create a precedent that will criminalize the core function of investigative journalism because – even as they spent two years shrilly denouncing that most trivial “attacks on press freedom” – they don’t actually care about that value at all. They want to protect only the journalism that advances their political interests, while putting people behind bars who publish information that undermines their political interests.

• USA: U.S. prepares criminal case against Wikileaks’ Assange
  16 November 2018, by siawi3

  Criminal charges in the United States could pressure Britain to extradite Assange, an Australian national. Australian officials should allow Assange to return there. U.S. officials have acknowledged that federal prosecutors have been conducting a lengthy criminal probe into Assange and Wikileaks. Lawyers for Assange and others have said his work with Wikileaks was critical to a free press and was protected speech. “The notion that federal criminal charges could be brought based on the publication of truthful information is an incredibly dangerous precedent to set.”

• Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi: Amnesty strips Myanmar leader of top prize
  15 November 2018, by siawi3

  United Nations investigators concluded that, while she was not complicit in the alleged genocide last year, she had failed to use her moral authority to help prevent the murder and rape of thousands of Rohingyas by the still-dominant army.

• Khashoggi murder - Turkish audio tapes shared, independant investigation needed
  15 November 2018, by siawi3

  Turkey and the US have no leg to stand on when it comes to condemning violence against journalists. Turkey claims it has shared recordings related to the murder of the journalist and writer Jamal Khashoggi with the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia and others.

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