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India – Right to Information campaigner Shehla Masood shot dead
Reporters Without Borders expressed deep shock today at the murder of Indian freedom of information activist and blogger Shehla Masood and called for an impartial and independent investigation, the arrest of the killer, respect for the right to information and protection of its supporters. Masood, 39, had campaigned for enforcement of the Right to Information (RTI) Act for the past two years and was on her way to a demonstration in support of jailed anti-corruption leader Anna Hazare. She (…)
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Chile – Citizen activism challenges protected media oligopoly
“A new Chile is born,” said President Sebastián Piñera as he personally welcomed 33 miners at the surface after their spectacular rescue from a collapsed mine in the Atacama desert 10 months ago. The country has indeed changed since then but not as La Moneda palace’s current occupant expected. Students are staging massive protests against an inegalitarian and expensive education system. Civil society groups and ecologists have been campaigning against the HydroAysén dam project, with some (…)
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Egypt – Leading woman blogger could be tried by court martial over Tweet
Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to prosecute a blogger, Asmaa Mahfouz, over several messages criticizing the council that she posted on Facebook and Twitter. Agence France-Presse said Mahfouz was to be tried by court martial but Mahfouz said on her Twitter account that she had not yet received a summons and did not know whether she was to be tried by a civilian or military court. “The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces promised on (…)
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Tunisia – Tunis court upholds order requiring filtering of porn sites
A Tunis appeal court yesterday upheld a 27 May court decision requiring the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) to block access to pornographic websites. ATI said it would refer the case to the country’s highest appeal court because it did not have the “financial and technical resources” to create the filtering and censorship system needed to implement the ruling. Moneem Turki, who represents the group of lawyers behind the legal initiative to have the filtering introduced, said ATI would have to (…)
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United Kingdom – Concern that social networks to be targeted as BlackBerry helps British police identify rioters
Reporters Without Borders is worried about cooperation between Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian manufacturer of the popular BlackBerry smartphone, and the British authorities in the wake of this week’s rioting in London and other cities in which, according to the authorities, rioters used its messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), to communicate with each other. BBM uses the Internet rather than the mobile phone network and requires user authentication, which makes it hard for (…)
Thailand – Abuse of lèse majesté law continues
Reporters Without Borders condemns the latest arbitrary use of Thailand’s lèse majesté law, this time to arrest Norawase Yotpiyasathien, a 23-year-old student, for posting articles taken from the We Are All Human website on his blog. He is the youngest person to be prosecuted on a lèse-majesté charge. Norawase was detained on 5 August on a warrant issued on 14 October 2010 as a result of a complaint by Nipon Lamlamtong, deputy rector of student affairs at Kasetsart University. After three (…)
