In this week’s Ethiopiques exiled journalist Mesfin Negash reflects on the ways that Ethiopia – once home, sweet, home – has become “a bitter prison for the majority of Ethiopians, both at home and abroad.”
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In this week’s Revolution Evening Post Cuban blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo talks about the first cholera outbreak in Cuba since the 19th century and how the government is trying to keep it quiet.
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In 2012, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi talked with Sampsonia Way about her journalism, the challenges of reporting in exile, and her current project, a memoir. She will be reading at City of Asylum on Friday.
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In this week’s Night Watch Israel Centeno talks about the euphemisms society uses to limit free speech. “The purpose of exercising freedom is neither to reassert a consensus, nor to verify the truth of a bias, nor to impose a dogma.”
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In this week’s Freedom of Speech Roundup news and analysis from Russia, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Tibet and Turkey. Also an interview with Mickey Huff on Project Censored, and ten things you might know about censorship.
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Bernardo Ruiz, director of the documentary Reportero, sat down with Sampsonia Way to discuss violence against reporters in Mexico.
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In this week’s Freedom of Speech Roundup news and analysis from Syria, Mexico, Sudan, China, Lebanon and Turkey. Also a review of “The Colonel” by Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi and a Q&A with journalist F. Brinley Bruton who is covering Syria.
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