As Egypt holds vote, Egyptian-American journalist, Mona Eltahawy, recounts her arrest for 12 hours by Egypt’s security forces on November 23 near Tahrir Square, during which time she was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted.
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Democracy Now interview with former freelancer at the New York Times, Natasha Lennard, who helped the newspaper cover the initial Occupy protests. Lennard wrote a piece for Salon.com title “Why I Quit the Mainstream Media.”
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For this video, Burmese exiled writer Khet Mar posed two questions to school children living in Rangoon: “Why is it important to say what you want to say?” and “If you could change anything in the world, what would you change?”
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A collection of past covers from Charlie Hebdo. The French satirical magazine, was firebombed just before a special edition “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad appeared on newsstands.
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Prominent Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah has been jailed on charges of inciting violence. Abdel Fattah spoke to Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous back in February.
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A demonstration against religious persecution of Coptic Christians turned fatal, and led to increased media censorship from Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
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Internet rights advocates in Italy celebrate the postponement of a gag law that would allow the Berlusconi government to actively censor the media and penalize journalists and publishers with fines and prison sentence.
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