Archive for the ‘Free speech’ Category

The Human Piano – Contextualizing freedom of speech

Friday, February 19th, 2010

The following is a guest post for OR318 by Leyla Haidarian, a Baha’i film maker based in South Africa and co-founder of Double Take TV.
In my son’s children’s prayer book, there is a sentence that has always baffled me:…

Jordan Ess stands up for free speech of bloggers

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

We are happy to see our friend Jordan supporting the March 18 Movement! Please also show your support by taking similar photos and sending them to us (you may do so via Twitter and Facebook too!)
Having an opinion isn’t…

New video: Bloggers should not be killed

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

We’re very excited to announce our latest video:

This would not have been possible without the help of our friends and supporters. Thank you so much for your hope, efforts and solidarity. Let’s make this Movement as effective as possible…

March 18 Themed Twitter Background

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

We’ve created a nifty little Twitter background for you guys to show your support for the movement. Instructions on how to upload it are below.

Step 1:  Right click on the above image and save it to your computer hard…

Free Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

The “Support Azerbaijan youth activists” campaign, whose mission is to secure the release of activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, has been collecting videos of solidarity from worldwide supporters.
Adnan and Emin were first arrested last year on the 8th…

Ways you can help

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Support free speech for bloggers
We’d like to thank everyone who is volunteering to commit with their support. We owe this movement to imprisoned bloggers everywhere and it’s important that we all stick together to make sure that our efforts…

Video: Free Kareem Rally in DC & Bern

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

We’d like to thank our friends at Bureaucrash for making this rally possible, and for their consistent support for Kareem, a jailed Egyptian blogger! Watch the video here:

Another rally happened in Bern, Switzerland to support Kareem.Here are the photos.…

Iran: Free Hossein Derakhshan

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

A group of Iranian bloggers decided to add “Free Hossein Derakhshan” to the names of their blog for one week. November 1, 2009 was the one-year anniversary of the arrest of the Iranian blogger, Hossein “Hoder” Derakhshan.

Rallies in Bern and Washington DC to help free Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The Free Kareem Campaign is an important partner of OR318. For information about the imprisonment of blogger Kareem Amer, you may read this article from the Mideast Youth site:
Kareem is a young Egyptian blogger who was only 22 years…

Iran: A blogger arrested, another blogger freed

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

According to some reports from Iran, Mostafa Ghovanllo Ghajar, a blogger and journalist is out of jail. Mostafa is writing in Roznamenegar No (means a new journalist). Mohammad Yazdanpanah, a reformist journalist and blogger got arrested. His blog is Boyeh…