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Egypt and its generals: between denial and repression
4 hours ago
by cfortune
By Salil Shetty, Secretary-General of Amnesty International Last March, following a violent crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, a group of 18 women protesters were detained by the Egyptian army. Seventeen of them were held for four days, repeatedly beaten, given electric s ...
Livewire - Amnesty ... - livewire.amnesty.org ·  19 references
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Chicken-Shit Pansy-Ass of the Year?
22 hours ago
by Pat Hartman
Michael Sellers is the guy, left, who is not visibly damaged. He used to be police chief in Fullerton CA, and we’ll get back to him. The other guy (below) is Kelly Thomas, whose hospital photo was taken by his father, and first published by bloggers (with permission of the elder Thomas.) The blog is ...
Moving Target - amovingtarget.wordpress.com · 3 references
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CPJ: Bahrain should grant entry to journalists
1 day ago
by admin
New York, February 9, 2012--Bahrain has rejected at least six journalists' applications for entry visas ahead of the anniversary of antigovernment protests that swept the country in February 2011, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities to allow journalis ...
Bahrain Center for Human ... - bahrainrights.org · Rank: 72,096 · 30 references
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Urgent Appeal: Peaceful Protests on the First Anniversary of the Revolution ...
1 day ago
by BYSHR
@Aljazeera pic Manama, 10 February 2012 Ladies and gentlemen, members of international NGOs, authorities, and Media. Best regards from Bahrain. The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR) would like to inform you to monitor the protests on the first anniversary of the revolution. Ladies and g ...
Bahrain Youth Society for ... - byshr.org · Rank: 132,017 · 4 references
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New journalism in a digital world
1 day ago
The Media World after Wikileaks and News of the World is organized by the international non-governmental organization World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) in cooperation with UNESCO. It will assess the impact on professional journalism - with its established practices, traditions and standards - of ...
UNESCO - unesco.org/new · Rank: 371 · 1248 references
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‘The state propaganda machinery's role in creating a brain dead nation'
1 day ago
by Sri Lanka Brief
Basil Fernando Not only the content but also the style of the propaganda issued by the state media is aimed at dulling the minds and discouraging independent thought within the nation, says the Asian Human Rights Commission’s Basil Fernando in a statement. Read more »
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Movement for Peoples' Struggle awareness programme disrupted
1 day ago
by Sri Lanka Brief
An awareness programme of the movement that was held at the Colombo Manning market today (Feb. 10) was disrupted by armed security personnel, the media unit of the Movement for Peoples' Struggle says.' With the movement commencing their awareness programme by distributing leaflets, armed policemen h ...
SRI LANKA BRIEF - srilankabrief.org · Rank: 76,088 · 1 reference
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