Sampsonia Way has been following the case of imprisoned Egyptian pacifist and blogger Maikel Nabil who has now been on hunger strike for more than sixty days.
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Turkmenistan has the world’s third most suppressed media, followed only by North Korea and Eritrea. However, the coverage of a deadly explosion marked the unprecedented emergence of citizen journalism in one of the world’s most isolated countries.
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A demonstration against religious persecution of Coptic Christians turned fatal, and led to increased media censorship from Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
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Internet rights advocates in Italy celebrate the postponement of a gag law that would allow the Berlusconi government to actively censor the media and penalize journalists and publishers with fines and prison sentence.
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“Today, let bones be smashed like the dreams of our youth” says Shihab, the protagonist of Magdy El Shafee’s graphic novel Metro. An English translation of the banned Egyptian graphic novel will be available in 2012.
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Recently Reporters Without Borders posted a video interview with the comedian and blogger Zarganar, who was freed from Myitkyina prison on 12 October under a government amnesty.
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Vietnamese radio broadcasters Vu Duc Trung and Le Van Thanh have been in prison for 15 months for broadcasting programming to China which the Chinese government deems critical of their freedom of expression policies.
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Syrian protesters in the Americas and in Europe have been monitored and harassed by embassy officials and others, according to a report released by Amnesty International.
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Journalist Claudia Julieta Duque has faced death threats in the past, but never from within the Colombian intelligence. She is still waiting to hear back from President Juan Manuel Santos about her request for an investigation.
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Egypt’s Supreme Military Council is censoring domestic newspapers, raiding television stations, and reinstating emergency laws that will put journalists on trial in military courts.
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Cartoonists at Risk and Their Defenders
Sampsonia Way presents Cartoonists Rights Network International, a cartoon-focused human rights organization, along with several of its affiliates and their work. READ
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