For a growing number of Turkmen youth, rap music has become a way to express their daily struggles and inspire political change in one of the world’s most oppressive countries.
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In this interview cyberactivists Ameer and Syrian Thinker talk about the Syrian government’s current surveillance of Twitter, the groups of activists known as “coordinations” that disseminates news via Twitter and Facebook, and the methods Syrian bloggers use to work around the government’s censorship.
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In this interview Khet Mar describes her childhood in a fishing village, the inspiration to become a writer, the political uprising and her life in prison, how she was released, her subsequent disaster relief work, and the risks she took in reporting.
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On March 22 City of Asylum/Pittsburgh will host a reading by Bosnian writer Ismet Prcic who will read from his novel Shards which was listed as a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times.
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Reggae singer/songwriter Juan David Chacón, better known as OneChot, was a victim of the violence he condemned in his video for the song “Rotten Town”. The video has been censored by the Venezuelan government since it’s release two years ago.
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A selection of statements, views and information posted to social media outlets as the news that The Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, French photojournalist Rémy Ochlyc, and Rami al-Sayed, a Syrian citizen journalist, had been killed during shelling in the city of Homs.
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Reporters Without Borders condemns the Syrian government’s refusal to allow the evacuation of French journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, and British journalist Paul Conroy, from Homs, along with the bodies of slain journalists Marie Colvin and Remy Ochlik.
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