This week: the U.S. government’s attack on press freedom, calling out China on censorship, and Singapore to require news websites to be licensed.
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In this interview Bina Shah talks about the media representations of Pakistan, the impact of Malala Yousafzai, and the future of women in Pakistan.
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This week: the CCP blocks news sites for the 18th Party Congress, Tibetan self-immolations continue in China, and an interview with poet/ activist Amiri Baraka.
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Khet Mar discusses the prolific career of Burmese journalist, editor, and political activist Maung Wuntha and the new battle he is fighting against lung cancer.
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This week: Green Party candidate Jill Stein on censorship in US elections, the arrest of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, China censors Twitter ahead of Communist Party congress, Bahrain revokes citizenships, and new gag law limits press freedom in Costa Rica.
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This week, China holds Ai WeiWei’s passport, Taliban threats to Pakistan media, and the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is released.
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Journalists in Sri Lanka contend that since the end of the 25 year civil war in 2009, their situation has actually worsened. Print and online publications are threatened or censored regularly, and by 2010 at least half a dozen writers fled the country.
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