Sampsonia Way presents a short story about the circumstances of secularist blogger Ananta Bijoy Das’s death. Anisur Rahman is unable to publish this piece in Bangladesh.
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Poet and journalist Anisur Rahman talks about the Bangladeshi government’s accountability in the attacks on secularist bloggers.
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An interview with writer Anisur Rahman about press freedom and the persecution of secular bloggers in Bangladesh.
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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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This week: three newspaper employees murdered in India, Facebook makes a human rights commitment, and Bahrain’s “Blogfather” granted asylum in the U.K.
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This week: Bulgarian journalist threatened for uncovering communist crimes, new documentary on female bloggers, and prison censorship in the United States.
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This week, an anti-Islamist film ignited violent protests across the Arab world; Freedom Theater co-founder Zakaria Zubeidi to begin death fast until he is released from a Palestinian prison; Aseem Trivedi jailed for cartoon mocking Indian government.
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