In Libya, information is still hostage to politics: reports are colored by the conflicting narratives of warring parties rather than based on facts.
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A UN expert has said that wealthy countries’ inaction is creating a market for smugglers.
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A boat carrying as many as 700 people capsized off the coast of Libya on Saturday night. By some estimates, over 1,500 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, mostly in the last week.
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Cartoonist Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez on the worsening situation in Libya and the ICC’s attempt to intervene.
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As fighting increases in Benghazi, Libya’s political stability is called into question.
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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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Reporters Without Borders has this year, for the first time, compiled a list of the world’s 10 most dangerous places for the media – the 10 cities, districts, squares, provinces, or regions where journalists and netizens were particularly exposed to violence and where freedom of information was flouted.
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