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Criticism of WIA Report »

By Curt on Jun 24, 2008 in WIA, Press, Threatened bloggers, Imprisoned bloggers | 0 Comments

Arthur Bright, a student, wrote an interesting essay on the WIA Report, asserting that the distinction between being arrested for blogging and being a blogger who got arrested was not perfectly observed.
Is it helpful to include arrests like those of Fatah, McClellan, and Aljughaifi in the WIA survey?  I’d argue no.  While it is commendable […]

Clarification Regarding List of Arrested Burmese »

By Curt on Jun 18, 2008 in WIA, Niknayman, Burma, Threatened bloggers, Imprisoned bloggers | 0 Comments

Given the press coverage of the WIA Report, which included reference to a list of Burmese arrestees we posted a link to, I thought some clarification would be useful. Neither the source of the report, Burmese blogger Niknayman, nor the CPB, nor Duncan, the guy who formatted the list we used, have ever maintained that […]