2009 December

December, 2009

Monthly archive · 17 posts

Stories from December, 2009

29 December 2009

Global Voices partners with Google on freedom of expression award

Nominations open today (December 29, 2009) for the Breaking Borders Award, a new prize created by Google and Global Voices to honor outstanding web projects initiated by individuals or groups...

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23 December 2009

Social Media in the Arab World, Snowball heading to Democracy

Written by Ramy Raoof · Middle East & North Africa

On its website, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), Arabic network that promotes freedom of speech, announced: The internet has a snowball effect on the process of democracy...

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22 December 2009

Uzbekistan: Criminal Charges Filed Against Documentary Photographer Umida Akhmedova

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Uzbekistan

Umida Akhmedova, Uzbek documentary photographer, has been accused of insult and slander against Uzbek people and traditions. The maximum penalty for these charges includes remedial work on two up to three years or detention for up to six months. She is incriminated in the production of "Women and men: from dawn till dusk" photo album, produced in 2007 under support of Swiss Embassy Gender Program.

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China: White-listing the Internet?

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

According to today's the Beijing News and Mingpao, The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is preparing to white-listing the whole Internet under the pretext of proliferation of pornography...

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China: Online protest against CNNIC

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

A group of webmasters puts up a protest website called FuckCNNIC to protest against the recent policy that bans individuals from registering CN domain. Last week, the China Internet Network...

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17 December 2009

China: Battle against containment

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

A diagram has been circulated through twitter indicating how netizens in China fight against information blocking and manipulation by state institution in the past few days. Below is a translated...

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15 December 2009

Moroccan Blogger, Internet Cafe Owner, Sentenced

Written by Jillian York · Morocco

On Monday, December 14, Moroccan blogger Bashir Hazzam (also spelled Hazem, Hazzem) and Internet cafe owner Abdullah Boukhou were sentenced, to four months and one year, respectively, in a Goulmim...

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