While covering anti-austerity protests and strikes in Athens and other Greek cities, journalists have been attacked by police and, in some cases, the protesters themselves.
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Egypt’s Supreme Military Council is censoring domestic newspapers, raiding television stations, and reinstating emergency laws that will put journalists on trial in military courts.
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The Iranian government arrested 6 documentary filmmakers, accusing them of conspiracy. The filmmakers made documentaries about famous Iranians and Iran’s national history. Sampsonia Way compiled brief overviews and filmographies of the directors.
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Dissident Chinese writer Guo Feixiong was released from prison after serving a five-year-sentence. Guo Feixiong is a novelist and essayist, independent publisher, and rural civil rights advisor and activist.
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Following an opinion-editorial that called President Kagame a “sociopath”, the Rwandan magazine Ishema has not only issued an entire edition dedicated to apology, an editor has resigned, a Rwandan newspaper organization suspended its publisher, and the magazine suspended itself for a month.
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