Vijay Nair explores the outrage from India’s citizens over police corruption and brutality in connect with two high profile rape cases.
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This week: thirteen journalists attacked in Cairo, an interview with Salman Rushdie, and a Chinese director calls out censorship policies at an award ceremony.
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This week: political satire on the rise in China, Nigeria bans film on oil corruption, and a FOX reporter is threatened with jail for not revealing her sources.
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Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe writes a second letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa after the details of her husband’s death remain a mystery.
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The deaths of student activists Sudipto Gupta and Subhojit Das have Indian citizens concerned about freedom of expression in the world’s largest democracy.
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In a keynote address first presented at the Jaipur Literary Festival, Basharat Peer discusses his personal experiences with censorship in India.
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This week: a Somali rap group performs amid death threats, an Egyptian comedian is arrested, and Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez is greeted by protesters.
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Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe writes an open letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse after her husband was killed as a result of his reporting.
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In India, writers and activists are subject to blatant misappropriations of law, while those with political connections get leniency.
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This week: circumventing Internet censorship with Tor, Burmese newspapers going daily, and analyzing Chinese government’s censorship of Weibo posts.
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