COUNTRIES

14 April 2012

Guinea-Bissau: Top Blogger Detained, Beaten by Military After Coup

Aly Silva is one of the most important bloggers in the small west African country of about 1 million people, if not the most important (see this Global Voices interview with him). He is a controversial figure in the country, who does not hide his political leanings. Yet nobody can match him in terms of his longevity, frequency of posting, and dedication to blogging.

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13 April 2012

China: Testing for “Kill Switch” of the World Wide Web?

Written by Oiwan Lam · China

China's internet became an intranet for about two hours on April 12. All internet users in China could not access to the World Wide Web and were cut off from...

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12 April 2012

Kuwait: Tortured for Someone Else's Tweets

Written by Mona Kareem · Kuwait

Throughout the year of 2011, Kuwait has had many cases of arrests of twitter users. It started with two tweeps getting arrested for insulting a religious sect. Other cases had...

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9 April 2012

Pakistan: Unpacking an Anti-Censorship Campaign

Written by Sana Saleem · Pakistan

When Pakistan's government called for proposals for a new URL filtering and blocking system earlier this year, local and global civil society coordinated their campaigns to focus on the strategies most likely to elicit a response from the authorities.

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6 April 2012

An Occupy Wall Street Tutorial: “How to Film a Revolution”

Written by WITNESS · United States

On Sunday December 11, 2011 The New York Times published an extensive article illustrating the role of livestream technologies in the Occupy Wall Street movement. The following day, seventeen mediamakers, including members of the Global Revolution livestream team were arrested.

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3 April 2012

A bullet killed Ahmed Ismael, but not his videos

Written by Yusur Al Bahrani · Bahrain

When people talk about legendary freedom fighters, I always recall citizen journalists. Those young men and women who post videos and updates online for the rest of the world are...

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26 March 2012

Hong Kong: Web Freedom Under Threat, 50 Cent Party Takeover

Written by Oiwan Lam · China, Hong Kong

With the help of Beijing government, the Chief Executive candidate Leung Chung-Ying won in the small circle election in Hong Kong. Leung was endorsed by 689 votes among the 1200...

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