Archive for the ‘Free speech’ Category

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…

Video Petition for Video Bloggers in Azerbaijan

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Those supporting detained video bloggers and youth activists Adnan
Hajizade and Emin Milli have launched a campaign to encourage short
video blogs in their support on YouTube.

A blogger imprisoned in Azarbaijan

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

Global Voices reports that youth activist, prominent blogger imprisoned after trial behind closed doors.

More Persecution on the Horizon

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

According to news sites “the head of Iran’s judiciary called on Sunday for the prosecution of people working for increasingly influential anti-establishment satellite TV channels and websites.”
It means that Iranian people who write in a collective blog, sign a…