By Curt on Feb 22, 2008 in Morocco, World Tech Podcast, Fouad Mourtada, Media coverage, Threatened bloggers, Facebook, Imprisoned bloggers | 0 Comments
Click here to listen to The World’s Tech Podcast featuring the Committee to Protect Bloggers.
Clark Boyd, technology reporter for Public Radio International’s radio program The World, interviewed us today for their Tech Podcast. We’ll be checking in regularly with Clark on the podcast to talk about threats to bloggers and threatened bloggers around the world.
This […]
By Curt on Jan 29, 2008 in Nay Phone Latt, Burma, Threatened bloggers, Imprisoned bloggers | 4 Comments
Update, August 13: From RSF.
Internet café owner and blogger Nay Phone Latt was charged under sections 33 (a) and 38 of the Electronic Act at a hearing yesterday. The police said they found articles showing disrespect for the government in his email inbox. Held since 29 January in Insein prison, Nay Phone Latt was initially […]
By Curt on Jan 20, 2008 in Free speech, Burma, Threatened bloggers, Censorship | 4 Comments
Burmese blogger Niknayman, who was central to getting news out about the country during the recent crackdown, wrote us this morning, enclosing a report on the anti-blogger efforts of the tinhorns during and after the crackdown. You can download a copy of the document, which contains the screenshots the blogger mentions, below.
Attack on Burmese Blogs […]
By Curt on Jan 17, 2008 in Burma, Free speech, Blogger, Blocked, Threatened bloggers, Censorship | 1 Comment
Mizzima reports that the tinhorns in Burma have, through the country’s two ISPs, blocked access to the Blogger.com blogging platform (also known as Blogspot).
In a bid to stop the flow of information outside Burma one of the most popular blog sites www.blogger.com has been banned by the Myanmar Post and Telecomm Ministry as of […]
By Curt on Jan 13, 2008 in Free speech, United States, Anti-Free Speech Laws, Threatened bloggers, Censorship | 0 Comments
Several decisions in U.S. courts recently, in Arizona and New Jersey, have recognized the right to blog anonymously. A Dodd-led filibuster in the U.S. Senate pushed back a vote on a bill that would have made more spying on U.S. citizens legal and would have given telecoms who’ve helped in illegal surveillance activities immunity.
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By Curt on Nov 30, 2007 in Zhai Minglei, Hong Kong, Threatened bloggers, China | 0 Comments
According to Radio Free Asia, Zhai Minglei, blogger at Yibao, and editor of the now-closed magazine Minjian, had his house raided today this morning by Chinese authorities.
“Three of them showed ID that confirmed they were from the Shanghai cultural business bureau. They said that I was involved in the illegal publication and distribution of […]
By Curt on Oct 12, 2007 in Phraya Pichai, Threatened bloggers, Thailand, Imprisoned bloggers | 0 Comments
One for the win column. According to RSF, the charges against the pseudonymous Thai blogger Praya Pichai have been dropped.
There is no news about the anonymous woman arrested on the same day as Praya, August 24. Praya was able to afford bail. The woman in question was not.
Thailand’s threatening Computer Crime Act […]
By Curt on Sep 26, 2007 in Sone Se Yar, Saffron Revolution, Cbox, Niknayman, KoHtike, Burma, Moezack, Threatened bloggers | 2 Comments
According to Australia’s The Age newspaper, the blog of Burmese blogger, Moezack, has gone dark. Moezack’s photos and posts were used extensively by the news media as the protests heated up.
The blog of another (exile) Burmese blogger, KoHtike, has also gone dark. (Update: That is, has been blocked.) The Justice and Injustice blog is […]
By Curt on Sep 13, 2007 in Oiwan Lam, Hong Kong, Threatened bloggers, China | 1 Comment
Oiwan Lam, a Hong Kong-based blogger (and Northern Asia editor for the Global Voices project) was charged with obscenity for linking to (linking, mind you, not posting) a Flickr photograph of an art nude (now available here) on a InMediaHongKong, a citizen journalism site. Read more on Oiwan’s blog, Oiwan’s notebook. Oiwan did this to […]
