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      Virtual Reality Hunters
      by Israel Centeno / April 9, 2013

      This week, columnist Israel Centeno contemplates how the Internet affects our perception of reality.

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      Freedom of Speech Roundup
      by Sampsonia Way / December 15, 2012

      This week: Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan on when censorship is permissible, cartoonists face censorship in South Africa, and free speech in Kazakhstan.

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      Locked Out: An Interview on Journalism with Editor Daniil Kislov
      by Global Journalist / March 8, 2012

      Daniil Kislov, founder and editor-in-chief of Ferghana News, paints a bleak outlook for journalism in Uzbekistan and says the independent media in the country is in a “deep freeze.”

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      Iron Digi-curtain: Belarus Nationalises Internet
      by Guest Contributor / January 6, 2012

      The Republic of Belarus will this week introduce a law that imposes restrictions on visiting and/or using foreign websites by Belarus citizens and residents. Violation is punishable by fines up to the equivalent of $125.

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    • Freedom of Expression: the Dark and Light Sides of Cyberspace
      by Sampsonia Way / December 27, 2011

      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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    • Turkmenistan: Citizen Journalism Emerges in a Silenced Country
      by Laura VanVliet / October 27, 2011

      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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    • Italy: Successful Protest Protects Internet
      by Liam Sweeney / October 23, 2011

      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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    • Tsering Woeser in Pictures
      by Joshua Barnes / May 19, 2011

      In this slideshow, we share photographs of Woeser, and information on her blogging history and new Tibetan writing. The poet is profiled in the May issue of Sampsonia Way.

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    • Elnur Majidli: Azerbaijan’s Facebook Dissident
      by Sampsonia Way / May 4, 2011

      Elnur Majidli a Strasbourg-based blogger and internet activist has been threatened with a 12 year jail sentence for ‘inciting hatred’. The following excerpt is from an interview conducted by Index on Censorship’s Mike Harris.

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      Nawaat Played a Crucial Role in Tunisia
      by Silvia Duarte / March 15, 2011

      On the eve of the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, Reporters Without Borders awarded its 2011 Netizen Prize to the founders of Nawaat, a Tunisian blogging group.

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