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India Weighs Social Media Curbs
By Sujoy Dhar
NEW DELHI - After India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a young Sikh man at a function in New Delhi, to record his protest against corruption in high places, social media sites went viral with musical spoofs and caricatured images of the incident.
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TURKEY
Filtering Out Internet Freedom
Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas
ANKARA - Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national integrity’ grounds.
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IRAN
Elections Playbook Starts With Crackdown on Critics
By Omid Memarian
NEW YORK - Less than two months before Iran's parliamentary elections, as much of the opposition mounts a boycott of the polls, a wave of arrests and lengthy prison sentences for political activists and journalists appears to herald a renewed crackdown in the Iranian capital.
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THAILAND
Land of Smiles - and Grimaces
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - The ‘Land of Smiles’ attracts some 14 million tourists annually to its tranquil beaches and glistening temples. But to many Thais, their country is becoming one of grimaces, thanks to its draconian lese-majeste (LM) law.
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Jailed Journalists Reflect Greater Struggle for Internet Freedom
By Rosemary D'Amour
WASHINGTON - The number of journalists in prison worldwide has spiked to its highest level in 15 years. Of them, nearly half worked online, raising larger questions about Internet freedom for more than just reporters, but average citizens as well.
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TAJIKISTAN
President Taking a Press Beating in Dushanbe
By Konstantin Parshin*
DUSHANBE - Following a diplomatic faux pas that enraged Russia, the knives seem to be out for Tajikistan's long-time president, Imomali Rahmon.
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Political Prisoners Are Burma's Unsung Heroes
By Christian Papesch
NEW YORK - In a move that highlighted its sub-par human rights record, the government of Burma announced Oct. 11 that it would release 6,359 prisoners, but how many of these will be drawn from the country's estimated 500 to over 2,000 political prisoners remains uncertain.
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INDIA
Kashmir’s Media Miracle Feeds on Conflict
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - "If one were to search for a positive outcome to the ongoing armed conflict in Jammu and Kashmir state, it would be the growth of journalism," says Prof. Shams Imran at the department of journalism, Central University of Kashmir.
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TUNISIA
Social Media Lift the Silence
By Simba Russeau
TUNIS - After 23 years of enforced silence, media professionals and artists in Tunisia are enjoying a period in which their freedom of expression is being respected for the first time.
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MIDEAST
Media Throttled From All Sides
By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
JERUSALEM - As media freedoms throughout the occupied Palestinian territories continue to decline, human rights groups are urging the international community to pressure Israeli and Palestinian security forces to respect and facilitate the ability of journalists to do their work.
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NORTH KOREA
Women Wear Pants, Revive Markets
By Ahn Mi-Young
SEOUL - North Korea’s communist government frowns upon women wearing pants, seeing it as a mark of ‘rotten bourgeois lifestyles.’ Yet, wives, literally wearing pants, are selling goods in the local markets to supplement their husbands’ meagre pay packets.
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SOUTH AFRICA
"Secrecy Bill" Step Backwards for Africa
By Terna Gyuse*
CAPE TOWN - Critics call it "the Secrecy Bill". And it comes at a time when several African countries are adopting promising new legislation on access to information. But campaigners say South Africa's draft Protection of Information Bill represents a step backwards.
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GREECE
Social Media Advances Against Elite Owners
Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS - An unflattering report on Greece’s media by a former United States envoy to this country, revealed by Wikileaks, evoked little public reaction because it was taken as a faithful portrayal.
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MEDIA-PAKISTAN
Caught Between the Army and the Taliban
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR - Journalists covering the United States-led ‘war-on-terror’ in Pakistan’s turbulent northwest are not sure who wants them out of the way more – the Taliban or the Pakistan army.
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MEXICO
Murders of Reporters Heighten Despair and Shock
By Daniela Pastrana
MEXICO CITY - "And how do you escape this anxiety, this sensation that nothing we do does any good?" a Mexican journalist wrote on her Facebook page after the murder of two of her colleagues in Mexico City.
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