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6 March 2008

EU: Towards a European Global Online Freedom Act

The European Parliament has passed a proposal (571 in favor, 38 against) to treat Internet censorship by national governments as a trade barrier. The proposal was submitted by European Parliament...

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14 February 2008

Fouad's Week: Fouad will not be forgotten!

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Saudi Arabia

The Free Fouad campaign has organized and carried out “Fouad’s Week”, during which bloggers were invited to republish one of Fouad’s posts on their blogs and to embrace “We Are...

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9 February 2008

China: Netizen Party announced

Written by John Kennedy · China

From forcing the rescue of hundreds of brick kiln slave laborers last year and seeing it through long after local bodies gave up to being analytical piranhas when dealt obvious...

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26 January 2008

Yemen blocks independent news websites

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Yemen

Numerous Yemeni websites have been blocked recently by government-controlled ISPs. Among them is the popular YemenPortal (English version of the site here), Yemen’s first multi-source news crawler and search engine,...

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29 October 2007

Morocco: Stop Internet Censorship!

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Morocco

In March of 2006, Livejournal, the popular blogging site, was blocked by the state-controlled telecommunications provider Maroc Telecom (a subsidiary of Vivendi International), depriving Moroccan citizens of access to the...

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1 October 2007

Belarus: Give Lukashenko his LuNet!

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Belarus

When the Belarusian activist Dzianis Dzianisau was detained for nearly two months on charges of “taking part in manifestations which disturb public order”, the Belarusian blogsphere successfully organized an online...

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10 August 2007

Part Two: Defending online free speech and environmental rights in Bulgaria

Written by Sami Ben Gharbia · Bulgaria

In Part One of this article, I outlined recent threats to the Bulgarian environment and the vibrant web-led protest movement that developed in response. In this article I speak to...

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