Victim of Torture and CIA Rendition Gets His First Day in Court — in Europe
Tomorrow, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Europe’s top human rights court based in Strasbourg, France, will hear arguments in El-Masri v. "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia." Tomorrow’s hearing marks the first case to …
Cuba – Hablemos Press journalist awaits 10th deportation to home town
Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, a reporter for the independent news agency Hablemos Press, was arrested on 10 May and is being held in a police detention centre in Havana awaiting deportation in three days’ time to his home town of Camagüey for the 10th time in two years. His sister-in-law, Niurka Caridad Ortega, visited the journalist yesterday and told Hablemos Press she had “seen him and taken him some clean laundry, although he said he had stopped eating since Thursday and was spitting (…)
Mexico – More attacks on media targets just six weeks before federal elections
Not a day goes by without some new horror in Mexico. The media have again been targeted in with armed attacks on two newspapers in the past four days and, a week ago, the murder of a former reporter who was supporting a presidential candidate’s campaign. Will it be possible to hold normal elections on 1 July amid such violence? “With just a month and a half to go to federal elections to choose a president and fill other important posts, we call for an immediate end to the federal offensive (…)
Egypt – Cairo bureau of Iranian TV station Al-Alam closed by authorities
Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders condemns the raid carried out by the Egyptian police two days ago on the Iranian Arabic-language satellite TV station Al-Alam. “The Egyptian authorities seized the station’s equipment and issued a warrant for the arrest of the bureau’s director, Ahmed Sioufi, on the grounds that Al-Alam did not have the necessary operating licences,” the press freedom organization said. “However, the station had made numerous licence applications in recent years (…)
Without a Card to Play, Texas Grandma Sentenced to Life Without Parole for First-Time Drug Offense
Texans can sleep more soundly at night knowing that Elisa Castillo, a grandmother and nonviolent first-time drug offender, is serving a life without parole sentence in Fort Worth. Yes, you read that right — the latest casualty of our War on Dr…
DRC – Two dangerous weeks for media in eastern provinces
Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by a spate of freedom of information violations in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale in the past two weeks, including the forced closure of a radio station, arrests of 11 journalists (three of whom are still detained) and threats against two journalists. Officials hostile to media in North Kivu Radio Liberté, a station located in Butembo, in North Kivu province, was shut down on 13 May on the mayor’s orders by members of the (…)
TPP: Internet Freedom Activists Protest Secret Trade Agreement Being Negotiated This Week
The U.S. content industry will try anything to preserve its profit margin and power over the creative content market at the expense of the Internet. They will use any tactic that circumvents democratic processes to make new rules for the Internet that …
DHS Considers Collecting DNA From Kids; DEA and US Marshals Already Do
Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show that DHS is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and is exploring expanding its regulation…
Next Round in Cybersecurity Battle: The Senate
Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). But thanks to internet activism and advocacy by organizations like the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 168 Congressmen voted &ldq…
Fighting Anti-Immigrant Laws…for Children and Families
What do anti-immigrant laws have to do with children and youth?
In my 8-year-old son Cyrus’s Spanish immersion program at a Berkeley public school, there are families facing deportation. The teacher taught a class on it and the children wrote letter…
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