Media Apr 18, 2018 Turkey to hold snap elections on 24 June, says Erdoğan (The Guardian) – The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has announced snap elections on 24 June, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make…
Media Apr 16, 2018 How did voters register their protest in Egypt’s presidential election? (The Washington Post) – During the last week of March, Egyptians headed to the polls to award incumbent President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi a second term. The event was an election…
Media Apr 16, 2018 Ethiopia ends web blackout, raising hopes of reforms under new PM (Reuters) – Internet users in Ethiopia said on Monday the government appeared to have ended a three-month online blackout, raising hopes of a relaxation of restrictions after the arrival of…
Media Apr 16, 2018 Moscow Court Blocks Telegram (Bloomberg) – A Moscow court ordered telecommunications companies to block Telegram in Russia after the chat app refused to grant intelligence authorities access to users’ encrypted messages, in a blow…
Media Apr 11, 2018 Chinese Government Forces Residents To Install Surveillance App In Xinjiang, a part of western China that a Muslim minority population calls home, the government forces residents to install an Android app that scans devices for particular files. Now,…
Media Apr 11, 2018 Waleed Abulkhair sits in a Saudi jail for speaking out Waleed Abulkhair sits in a Saudi jail for speaking out By Javier El-Hage and Celine Assaf Boustani July 12, 2016 Javier El-Hage and Celine Assaf Boustani are lawyers at the…
Media Apr 9, 2018 Let grieving wife of dead environmentalist leave Iran, son pleads The son of an Iranian-Canadian environmentalist who died in a Tehran prison under mysterious circumstances has called on Iran to allow his grieving mother to leave the country. Maryam Mombeini,…
Media Apr 9, 2018 UN Security Council to meet over chemical attack in Syria (CBS News) – The U.N. Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting Monday on Syria following a deadly apparent chemical weapons attack on Saturday. Rival meetings were originally…
Media Apr 6, 2018 ‘We need to hit kleptocrats in their wallets’ Amid the recriminations over the Sergei Skprial poisoning, questions have been raised about how the UK government deals with Russia. Is expelling diplomats enough? Or would clamping down on the…
Media Apr 4, 2018 Egyptian website editor arrested for republishing article on election fraud (The Guardian) – Egyptian police raided the office of a news website late on Tuesday and arrested its editor-in-chief, according to three of its journalists, including its managing editor. The…
Media Apr 3, 2018 Ethiopia’s parliament swears in new prime minister (CNN) – Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiye Ahmed, was sworn in by parliament Monday. The country’s ruling coalition appointed Ahmed the new leader after weeks of uncertainty and protest.He succeeds…
Media Apr 3, 2018 As Malaysia Moves to Ban ‘Fake News,’ Worries About Who Decides the Truth (The New York Times) – In highway billboards and radio announcements, the government of Malaysia is warning of a new enemy: “fake news.” On Monday, the lower house of Parliament…
Media Mar 14, 2018 The U.N. Received 138 Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in 2017 (TIME) — The United Nations received 138 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in 2017, some involving multiple perpetrators and victims and over 40 percent arising from its peacekeeping missions,…
Media Mar 12, 2018 ‘Unsafe even to bury the dead’ in besieged Syrian enclave (Reuters) – Thousands of families are sleeping in the open in the streets of the biggest town of Syria’s rebel-held eastern Ghouta enclave, where there is no longer any room…
Media Mar 1, 2018 Iran detains 35 women for going to football match (BBC) – They tried to go to a game between Tehran teams Esteqlal and Persepolis. Iran said they were temporarily held and would be released after the match.
Media Feb 27, 2018 U.N. Links North Korea to Syria’s Chemical Weapon Program (The New York Times)– North Korea has been shipping supplies to the Syrian government that could be used in the production of chemical weapons, United Nations experts contend. The evidence…
Media Feb 26, 2018 Tanzania opposition MP jailed for five months for insulting president (Reuters) – A court in Tanzania sentenced two opposition leaders to five months in prison on Monday for insulting President John Magufuli, a decision likely to fuel criticism that authorities…
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…
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…
