Bangladeshi and international media organizations protest for justice in the case of slain journalists Meherun Runi and Sagar Sarowar, and for safety of journalists in Bangladesh. Runi and Sarowar were working to expose illegal land-grabbing by a corporation at the time of the murders.
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The Great People’s Movement, founded by exiled journalist Elnur Majidli, is organizing social activism online to garner participants for public demonstrations, and calls for freedom from dictatorship, corruption, and tyranny, and for the release of political prisoners.
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A transcript from a live Facebook interview hosted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty with Alexander Lukashuk and Jan Maksymiuk, two correspondents from its Belarus Service (Radio Svaboda).
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Democracy Now speaks to Fattah about the Egyptian revolution’s ongoing struggle against the military regime and his ordeal in one of Egypt’s worst prisons.
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Thousands gathered in cities around Turkey on May 15 to protest Internet censorship legislation that will require citizens to install filters on their computers and that opponents say is akin to wiretapping.
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It’s clear that Twitter and Facebook are an important aid in spreading the message of the Egyptian protesters to the rest of the country and to the world. Two Egyptian protesters explain how the human voice is still the powerful instrument — with or without the help of social media.
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