Hamza Kashgari, a young journalist has caused a wide anger among Saudis when tweeting on the Mawlid (the Holy Prophet’s birthday). His tweets included his opinions about the prophet, how he’s equal to him and how he hated some of …
Posted in Activism, Atheism, Censorship, Current Events, Freedom of Speech, Islam, Media, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Society, Taboos | Tagged blasphemy, hamza, prophet, Saudi, Twitter | 8 CommentsLet us from the very beginning of this article state and ascertain that we live in the age of free information, where the Internet has connected billions of people to each other, making it possible for the individual to exchange …
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds | Tagged internet, Kurdistan, Kurds | Leave a commentOnce upon a time there was a troll, Hans Christian Andersen wrote. This troll was the worst of the trolls, he was the Devil and the Devil had a mirror. It was a wicked invention; everything good and beautiful became …
Posted in Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged Censorship, Kurdistan, Kurds, rojtv, Turkey | 2 CommentsMany prominent internet companies brag about offering services that help people “connect” with one another, making information more “open” and “transparent” and that they seemingly promote freedom
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Bahrain, Censorship, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech | Tagged Censorship, security | 3 Comments(Fragments of letters from imprisoned Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil.) – Half of the period of Kareem Whenever I think of the length of my sentence (2 years), I remember that Kareem Amer was imprisoned for 4 years and he was …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Civil Rights, Egypt, Freedom of Speech | Tagged Egypt, jan25, Maikel Nabil | Leave a commentIstanbul, Turkey- Dawn on Tuesday brought an unfortunate wake up call to many Kurds and especially to journalists as a wave of arrests across Turkey picked up 40 people, most of whom are journalists. The arrests came under the premise …
Posted in Awareness, Censorship, Civil Rights, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 4 CommentsBahrain continues its crackdown on the country’s human rights advocates, adding Zainab Al Khawaja amongst its growing list of political prisoners, many of whom underwent severe psychological abuse, sexual humiliation and physical torture. Zainab is one of Bahrain’s most prominent …
Posted in Activism, Bahrain, Censorship, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights | Tagged Bahrain | Leave a commentBelow are updates of the recent coverage from the Alliance for Kurdish Rights detailing abuse against the Kurdish people: Mass Arrests of Kurdish Intellectuals in Istanbul: My father-in-law was one of fifty people arrested on Friday morning, and while the …
Posted in Awareness, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Iran, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey | Leave a commentMilitarists told me that my case differs from the case of Alaa Abd El Fattah, because Alaa isn’t tried as being a political activist… I look in their eyes and ask them, …“Is it a confession that I am being …
Posted in Bad news, Censorship, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Egypt, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, News and Politics | Tagged Maikel Nabil | 5 CommentsRojin Mohamadi has been arrested upon her return to Iran. She is a Human rights activist, and has been vocal about the Iranian regimes failures, especially Iran’s human rights record. She was arrested on the 14th of November, and later …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Iran, Kurds | Tagged Iran, Kurds | Leave a comment