Media Feb 23, 2018 Iran Arrests Two More Women For Protesting Compulsory Hijab (RFE) – Iranian security officers have arrested two women who protested against the compulsory hijab in Tehran by removing their head scarves in public and waving them while standing on…
Publication Feb 22, 2018 Media, rights activists threatened in South Sudan: U.N. report (Reuters) – Journalists and rights activists in South Sudan have been killed or arrested and newspapers closed, often by the government, hampering coverage of one of the world’s biggest humanitarian…
Publication Feb 22, 2018 Russian opposition leader arrested ahead of presidential election (The Independent) – Russia’s opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, said he had been detained by police weeks ahead of a presidential election in which he has been barred from running. Mr…
Media Feb 16, 2018 Hungary’s Orban steps up crackdown on critics before vote (ABC News) – Nearly 30 years after the end of communism, the tightening stranglehold Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his oligarch allies have on key sectors of Hungary’s media has…
Media Feb 16, 2018 Turkey sentences journalists to life in jail over coup attempt (The Guardian) – A Turkish court has sentenced six defendants, including three prominent journalists, to life in prison over allegations of involvement in a 2016 coup attempt, drawing fierce condemnation…
Publication Feb 15, 2018 Chinese Lawyers Pen Open Letter in Protest of Professional Persecution (Radio Free Asia) – Dozens of Chinese lawyers have signed an open letter calling on the ruling Chinese Communist Party to respect their professional rights and release all detained human…
Publication Feb 15, 2018 Navalny Website Blocked In Russia Over ‘Rybkagate’ Report (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – Internet service providers in Russia began blocking access to opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s website on February 15 following an order from the country’s communications regulator,…
Publication Feb 14, 2018 Cambodia parliament adopts lese-majeste law, prompting rights concerns (Reuters) – Cambodia’s parliament on Wednesday unanimously adopted a law that forbids insulting the monarchy as rights groups expressed concern the legislation, in effect in neighboring Thailand, could be used…
Publication Feb 14, 2018 Recruitment of child soldiers still rising in South Sudan (Aljazeera) – The civil war in South Sudan is now in its fifth year. It has killed thousands and displaced millions. Monday marked International Day against the use of Child…
Media Feb 5, 2018 China’s RSDL a licence to disappear, hold and torture dissenters China, which British Prime Minister Theresa May visited last week and with which the Vatican has reportedly signed a controversial deal, is a land of euphemisms. Underneath the glistening bright…
Media Feb 2, 2018 Kenya arrests lawyer, keeps TV stations shut (Reuters) – Kenya on Friday arrested an opposition lawyer and defied a court order to lift a ban on three private television stations that had covered the symbolic presidential inauguration…
Announcement Jun 1, 2014 Announcing OFF 2012 Speaker: Iyad el-Baghdadi Iyad el-Baghdadi is a Palestinian writer and expert on Islam and political liberties who was born and raised in the United Arab Emirates.
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Announcement Jun 1, 2012 Announcing OFF 2012 Speaker: Mona Eltahawy Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning Egyptian-American journalist.
