Chiranuch Premchaiporn, the editor of the Prachatai Thai news website, faces a possible 20-year jail sentence for not removing certain comments against the monarchy from her website quickly enough.
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In this interview the editor of the blog Coup Four and a Half talks about the changes that the lifting of the state of emergency will bring to Fiji, the censored stories of three killed tourists, and the steps the country needs to take in order to establish freedom of speech.
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Republican People’s Party chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu admitted that his party was behind the 1948 killing of renowned Turkish writer Sabahattin Ali and imprisoned renowned poet Nazım Hikmet for his political ideas.
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Alongside a litany of human rights abuses, Eritrea is perhaps most notable for its lack of any private, independent media outlets, which was the result of massive crackdown in 2001 on the press, labor unions, and the political opposition leaders.
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Iran’s plans to introduce a domestic computer network that would be compatible with Islamic principles and work independently from the World Wide Web are shrouded in secrecy. RFE/RL has compiled this quick guide to the possible introduction of a national Internet in Iran and the challenges it may face.
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In this essay, journalist and author Salil Tripathi, explains how outdated Colonial-era legislation is being used to curtail free expression, exemplified by the legal proceeding filed against four authors who read aloud from Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses.
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In light of the new year’s Lantern Festival, we take a look back at China’s heightened crackdown on writers, journalists and activists in 2011. Included is an infographic with a timeline detailing major arrests and protests of the last year.
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