The Damian Green arrest confirms fears about a vengeful government and a supine media, says John Kampfner A few years back, when I was a full-time political journalist, I had a chat with a colleague who had just become a government information officer. …
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The politics of intimidation
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UK: Shadow Immigration Minister Arrested
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2008/11/28/uk-shadow-immigration-minister-arrested/The shadow immigration minister, Damian Green, was arrested last night over his alleged involvement in a series of leaks from the Home Office. While the move has been condemned by the opposition, the Home Office has denied any ministerial involvement. Read more here …
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Iran: media crackdown continues
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2008/11/28/iran-media-crackdown-continues/Bahman Totonchi, a journalist for the former Kurdish weekly Karfto, was arrested on 18 November following a house search by intelligence agents. The authorities had been harassing the journalist since the closure of Karfto on 29 December last year, when the weekly’s licence was withdrawn for good on the grounds of “failure to publish regularly”. …
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Russian Intel Reporter Soldatov Profiled by Open Source Center
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/12/soldatov.htmlor even killed for their reporting, Soldatov has [suffered] relatively few consequences.” But on November 12, Soldatov’s employer Novaya Gazeta fired him and Agentura.ru colleague Irina Borogan “without explanation” (noted by Maria Eismont in Index on Censorship on November 27). The “curiosity” of Soldatov’s career is thus diminishing and the Agentura.ru project may be in jeopardy. In happier times, Soldatov was featured in “A Web Site That Came in From the Cold to Unveil Russian Secrets
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Urban commune
http://urbancommune.blogspot.comThe politics of intimidation UK: Shadow Immigration Minister Arrested Iran: media crackdown continues Politkovskaya: slim hope for justice Rouble trouble hits Russian media
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Britannia Radio
http://britanniaradio.blogspot.comand proprietors are shying away from difficult stories for fear of "getting into trouble". The fear with the Green case is that civil servants and politicians will now do so as well. • John Kampfner is chief executive of Index on Censorship indexoncensorship.org
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THUS - because it does not have to be that way
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Tankar från Routern
http://sandhamnssidan.blogspot.comdemokratiska grundvalar. Och tänker på mord och förföljelser och arresteringar av modiga reportrar, journalister och författare världen över. Mordet på den ryska journalisten Anna Politkovskya, på den uzbezkiske journalisten Alisher Saipov som mördades brutaltför snart ett år sedan för sina artiklar om massakern i Andjijan, tystandet oppositionen i Burma - Zarganar ( se längre ner på bloggen).. listan kan göras oändlig. Tänker på Amn
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Clive Hamilton & I: Getting Personal about Sex, Lies, Hate & Censorship
http://sydwalker.info/blog/2008/11/26/clive-hamilton-me-sex-...of the debate. In Finland, a country that mysteriously chose to implement internet filtering, one of the sites on the (leaked) banned list was a site opposing Internet censorship. In Turkey, where Internet censorship was also introduced recently, index on Censorship reports “there are more people working on censoring the Internet than developing it”. Kafka and Orwell would appreciate these tales.
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Free Speech Emergency in Latvia
http://freespeechlatvia.blogspot.comFrontLine Defenders International Freedom of Expression Campaign Index on Censorship Article19
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Internet Freedom Blog
http://freedom4internet.blogspot.comPolice in Sudan arrest dozens of journalists protesting against media censorship The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information watched with growing concern as the Sudanese government arrested dozens of journalists and columnists. ˜Scores"' of reporters arrested in Sudan At least 60 journalists were arrested by Sudanese police while attending a peaceful protest demanding a new freedom of expression law this morning. Zimbabwe Brilliant way to get news to Zimbabwe Via radio, text messaging and the web, Brilliant Pongo en
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Commentariat: Summarising the Comment from the Glass Bubble
http://www.commentariat.org.ukI spend an entire day digging around for details of the Martin Bright New Statesman / Carter-Ruck Libel imbroglio about the businessman Nadhmi Auchi and news reports being removed from websites in the UK after lawyers letters are sent, and I surface to find that someone has published what is claimed to be the entire membership list of the BNP, including phone
