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John Kampfner, the Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, and Richard Burge from Wilton Park discuss the ‘dark and light’ sides of cyberspace when it comes to freedom of expression.
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The following selection compiles 2011′s must-read Daily Posts in Sampsonia Way. Here you’ll read the first-hand experiences of musicians, writers, bloggers, filmmakers and journalists who are struggling to speak their minds.
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The former president of the Czech Republic, founded the International Parliament of Writers, which later led to the establishment of the International Cities of Refuge Network and the Cities of Asylum in USA.
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To track and surveil citizens online, repressive regimes in the Middle East and North Africa have relied on Western technology for years. US company BlueCoat has been accused for months of providing the Assads with products for online crackdown.
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For this video, Burmese exiled writer Khet Mar posed two questions to school children living in Rangoon: “Why is it important to say what you want to say?” and “If you could change anything in the world, what would you change?”
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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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Tsering Woeser comments on the popular but distorted perception of Tibet as a place of mystery and mysticism, a distortion, that according to Woeser, is not only made accidentally by popular culture but even deliberately through Chinese scholarship – compounded with the explicit political propaganda.
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