For Chinese activists government restrictions on their rights to move and travel are clear: once you’re in, you can’t get out, and once you’re out you can’t get in. Tienchi Martin-Liao highlights the cases of Li Jianhong and others who have tried to break through the “besieged fortress”.
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Editorial cartoonist Surendran Rasadurai (Sri Lanka) on the stoning of a Syrian girl by the armed resistance group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for joining Facebook.
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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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Does Iranian or Middle Eastern heritage mean ‘terrorist’? Yaghoub Yadali examines prejudice and takes a close look at the short film “Brain of Terror,” in which the Iranian-American actress Kathreen Khavari plays 11 characters who are trying determine whether or not they’re terrorists.
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In Israel/Palestine, former combatants are using the Theatre of the Oppressed to move towards an end to the occupation. Recently London theatre group Cardboard Citizens invited a former Israeli officer Chen Alon to share his experience of making theatre for peace.
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Political cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards (Netherlands) comments on the international media’s apparent disregard for serious journalism while covering the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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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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