A video of acclaimed circus act The Flying Wallendas performing to a recording of Salman Rushdie’s reading of his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet at City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s Jazz Poetry Concert.
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In this interview two Iranian journalists discuss the recent issues of Iran’s diplomatic situation with the US and China, rumors surrounding the murder of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, Internet censorship, and Iran’s political prisoners.
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The Art of Freedom film festival awarded the Best Short Documentary prize to “Click in Fear,” a film about journalist Law Eh Soe. Burma’s first film festival featured uncensored films, some of which are critical of the former military regime.
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Ethiopia sentenced Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye to 11 years in prison for supporting terrorism and illegally entering the country. Ethiopia has a far-reaching Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, with seven journalists now imprisoned, and the world’s largest number of exiled journalists in the last decade.
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The Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church is hosting an event this Sunday, January 15 to raise funds to benefit the Thompson family and the Diggs family, whose homes were destroyed by a fire, December 2011.
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After the Computer Crime Act came into effect in 2007, Thailand’s freedom of expression has suffered greatly. Gone are days when the country had what was considered one of the region’s freest media.
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