Since November 21, 2013 – the beginning of mass protests in Ukraine – 136 journalists have been injured while carrying out, or as a result of their professional activities, according to data collected by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI).
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For Chinese activists government restrictions on their rights to move and travel are clear: once you’re in, you can’t get out, and once you’re out you can’t get in. Tienchi Martin-Liao highlights the cases of Li Jianhong and others who have tried to break through the “besieged fortress”.
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Editorial cartoonist Surendran Rasadurai (Sri Lanka) on the stoning of a Syrian girl by the armed resistance group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for joining Facebook.
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Exiled writers Marina Nemat, Omid Fallahazad, Moniro Ravanipour, Shahrnush Parsipur, and Roya Hakakian talk via Google Hangout about risking imprisonment for their writing, repression against opposition writers, the government’s crackdown on free press, and the condition of writing in exile.
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In commemoration of Black History Month, Sampsonia Way recognizes the African-American authors who have contributed their transformative words to our pages, among them Chris Abani, Amiri Baraka, Toi Derricotte, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Nikki Giovanni, Angela Jackson, and Yusef Komunyakaa.
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Did the ‘Caliphate’ really exist as a political and religious regime for transferring authority through Islamic history? Author Hamdy el-Gazzar comments on Islamic historian Mohammad Abu Rahma’s new book about the fight for authority throughout the more than 600-year history of Caliphate rule.
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Did the ‘Caliphate’ really exist as a political and religious regime for transferring authority through Islamic history? Author Hamdy el-Gazzar comments on Islamic historian Mohammad Abu Rahma’s new book on the fight for authority spanning more than 600 years of Caliphate rule.
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Editorial cartoonist Gianfranco Uber (Italy) comments on the reported hanging of Iranian poet Hashem Shaabani at an unidentified Iranian prison.
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Does Iranian or Middle Eastern heritage mean ‘terrorist’? Yaghoub Yadali examines prejudice and takes a close look at the short film “Brain of Terror,” in which the Iranian-American actress Kathreen Khavari plays 11 characters who are trying determine whether or not they’re terrorists.
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Editorial cartoonist Julio Carrión Cueva (Peru) on the self-censorship case of fellow Ecuadorian cartoonist Bonil (Xavier Bonilla) who was forced by a “Gag Law” and president Rafael Correa to retract and publish a new sanctioned version of a cartoon critical of government.
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