-Hisham Wyne-
“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign”
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859.
But sovereign are we, over our blogs and the contents and comments therein?
We are bloggers. We want freedom. But…
Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category
Guest Post: Who are we? Individuals, citizens, journalists or all three?
Sunday, March 7th, 2010The Human Piano – Contextualizing freedom of speech
Friday, February 19th, 2010The 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:…
Free Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli
Sunday, January 24th, 2010The “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…
Video: Free Kareem Rally in DC & Bern
Saturday, November 7th, 2009We’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, 2009A 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, 2009The 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…
A female blogger freed in Iran
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Shiva Nazar Ahari, human rights activist and blogger is out of jail. She had been arrested after 12th of June presidential election.
Iran:Tohidloo, a female reformist blogger walks free
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Somayeh Tohidloo, a female reformist blogger walked free from jail today after being in prison for 71 days. Read more here.
Leading reformist & blogger Abtahi on trial
Saturday, August 1st, 2009In the court Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who appeared wearing prisoner’s pyjamas, looked weak and seemed to have lost weight. Read more and see his photos before arrest and after arrest.
Iran: A blogger arrested, another blogger freed
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009According 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…