2009 July

July, 2009

Monthly archive · 16 posts

Stories from July, 2009

24 July 2009

China: Calling Guo Baofeng back home for dinner!

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

Blogger Peter Guo Baofeng, or amoiist, has been detained for more than a week by Mawei police in Fujian. According to twitter report (locked), the Mawei police asked the six...

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23 July 2009

China: Political harassement of bloggers demanding the release of Ilham Tohti

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

Uighur professor of Minzu University of China and founder of Uighurbiz, IIham Tohti, has disappeared for more than two weeks. More than 374 signatures have been collected demanding the Chinese...

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22 July 2009

Egypt: Three Bloggers Arrested On the Same Day

Written by Noha Atef · Egypt

Today, July 22, 2009, seems to be a start of a series of crackdown on bloggers in Egypt, as 3 young bloggers were arrested separately. The first blogger is Ahmad...

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21 July 2009

“Resign or Else”: Report of Power Abuse Stifled in the Madagascar Media

Written by Lova Rakotomalala · Madagascar

[ Most identities have been replaced by initials for safety reasons] VNR is a young journalist in one of the largest newspaper of Madagascar. When we first talked over the...

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Azerbaijan: Appeal of bloggers rejected ahead of National Media Day

Written by Ali S. Novruzov · Europe, Azerbaijan

On 20th of July, Baku Court of Appeals was going to consider the cases of Adnan Hajizada and Emin Milli, two youth activists and bloggers recently beaten and detained in...

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20 July 2009

Democracy movement under attack in Vietnam

Written by Bhumika Ghimire · Vietnam

Vietnam's growing democracy movement is under attack from the state once again.Pro-democracy blogger Nguyen Tien Trung was arrested earlier this month. According to Reporters Without Borders “Nguyen Tien Trung’s arrest...

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19 July 2009

Azerbaijan: Activists' support site goes down

Written by Ali S. Novruzov · Azerbaijan

Yesterday, as Önər Blog [AZ] reported, the Appellate Court in Baku was to consider again the case of Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, the recently beaten and detained youth activists and bloggers sentenced last week. Yesterday, however, one of the main websites created in their defense went down.

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