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.
Archive for the ‘Free speech’ Category
Video Petition for Video Bloggers in Azerbaijan
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009A blogger imprisoned in Azarbaijan
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Global Voices reports that youth activist, prominent blogger imprisoned after trial behind closed doors.
More Persecution on the Horizon
Sunday, July 5th, 2009According 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…
Iran: Free Shiva Nazar Ahari
Sunday, July 5th, 2009Shiva Nazar Ahai, is a female Iranian blogger and human rights activist who was arrested a few weeks ago. MadyarIran has published a poster with her photo and asked ‘freedom for all political prisoners’.
Free Speech as a Human Right
Saturday, May 30th, 2009By Curt Hopkins of the Committee to Protect Bloggers
The two main arguments governments, and their supporters, make against free speech are these. First, that the outlawed speech is immoral. An example of this might be a blogger in Egypt…
Founders of March 18 on PRI’s “The World”
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009Cyrus Farivar reports on an online movement promoting free speech and supporting bloggers who’ve been imprisoned for their writings. The March 18th movement was inspired by the death of a young Iranian blogger in a Tehran prison.
Listen to the…
Why we’re here
Friday, May 15th, 2009Those supporting free speech for bloggers around the world come from a host of different backgrounds, often focus on different elements of the issue and do so in different ways. However, we are all united by a set of core…