Reporters Without Borders reiterates its concern about the fate of journalists and bloggers who have disappeared or who have been kidnapped over the course of the past nine months of protests against Bashar Al-Assad’s government.
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As the internet’s role in free speech becomes increasingly prevalent, tactics to control the internet are growing more refined each year. This list of 2011′s current transgressors has been compiled…
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Syrian protesters in the Americas and in Europe have been monitored and harassed by embassy officials and others, according to a report released by Amnesty International.
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Syrian government has detained Omar al-Assad, a local journalist who contributes to pan-Arab news outlets, and expelled Maarten Zeegers, a reporter for NRC Handelsblad and De Standaard.
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Syrian blogger, Amina Abdallah, who goes by the name of Gay Girl In Damascus, has been abducted. Three men in their early 20’s, assumed to be agents of Assad, seized her on a street in Damascus.
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A poem from Syrian poet Maram al-Massri from her Red Cherry on a White Tile Floor, who also spoke to Sampsonia Way about the Arab Spring and the Syrian uprising.
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In this interview with Sampsonia Way, Syrian poet Maram al-Massri discusses being a female poet in Syria, censorship, freedom of expression, social media, and the Arab Spring.
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