This article draws attention to the real increase of sexist online abuse in India via social media channels like Twitter. Female activists who have “tweeted” political messages are consistently targeted for their outspokenness and are met with serious threats that transcend the digital realm. The article was originally published on April 1, 2014 by the Index on Censorship.
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In this week’s column, author Tarik Gunersel writes about literary and social media crackdowns as well as the recent challenges to religious freedom under Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan.
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Almost a year ago Ilham Tohti, a 44 year-old Uyghur scholar and lecturer, told Radio Free Asia he had the feeling that his “peaceful days are numbered.” On January 15, he disappeared.
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Editorial cartoonist Gianfranco Uber (Italy) comments on the reported hanging of Iranian poet Hashem Shaabani at an unidentified Iranian prison.
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Writers Tarik Günersel, Pinar Selek, Necati Abay, and Cüneyt Ayral talk via Google Hangout about risking imprisonment for writing against the regime, the pattern of repression against opposition writers, the government’s crackdown on free press, and the condition of writing in exile.
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From ordering a TV station to stop broadcasting a speech by an opposition leader to the imprisonment of Gezi Park protesters, and from the bombing of Kurdish peasants to the targeting of journalists, each day “it seems that PM Erdoğan’s government creates new material for Ripley’s Believe it or Not.”
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If you live in Cuba, Iran or Sudan, and are using the increasingly popular online education tool Coursera, you have likely encountered some access difficulties since the week of January 27. Coursera has been included in the US export sanctions regime.
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