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    • Ma Jian
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / May 4, 2013

      This week: Mexican Senate passes a bill against impunity, an interview with novelist Ma Jian, and Iran intensifying censorship before presidential election.

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    • Chinese director Feng Xiaogang on April 12 accepting his award for Best Director at the China Film Directors Guild. Photo: BeijingCream via Youtube.
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / April 27, 2013

      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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    • Zhang Anni, daughter of Chinese activist Zhang Lin, was detained by police at her elementary school. Photo: NT Don China via YouTube.
      When The Police Persecute A 10-Year-Old Girl
      by Tienchi Martin-Liao / April 24, 2013

      Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the case of Zhang Anni, daughter of a Chinese activist, who was detained by police and then banned by her school.

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    • Daily Show in China
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / April 20, 2013

      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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      Lei Feng’s Specter Still Hovers Over Mainland China
      by Tienchi Martin-Liao / April 10, 2013

      Tienchi Martin-Liao explores how despite lack of public interest, the CCP still heavily promote Lei Feng, a figure of unyielding loyalty to the communist party.

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      Slideshow: Weiwei-isms
      by Sampsonia Way / April 8, 2013

      Sampsonia Way shares ten quotes on freedom of expression from Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei’s book Weiwei-isms.

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    • CAPTION
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / March 30, 2013

      This week: circumventing Internet censorship with Tor, Burmese newspapers going daily, and analyzing Chinese government’s censorship of Weibo posts.

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    • A chalk outline in the Czech Republic in memory of Tibetan monk Tapey, one of the 100 immolators in protest of occupied Tibet. Photo: Ya Noya Shantie on Flickr.
      Fire, Flight, Freedom
      by Tienchi Martin-Liao / March 27, 2013

      Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the plight of the Tibetans at the hands of Chinese authority, self-immolators, and how the CCP holds the power to end this all.

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    • In this panel from Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel memoir Persepolis, Iranian women discuss wearing veils. Photo: Peter Forret.
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / March 23, 2013

      This week: author Chinua Achebe on free speech in Nigeria, the graphic memoir Persepolis is banned in Chicago, and Ai Weiwei is the face of dissidence in China.

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    • CAPTION
      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / March 16, 2013

      This week: Azerbaijani authorities are quick to silence critics and Burma’s government has announced that daily newspapers will be free to publish on April 1.

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