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Egyptian protesters rally at Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, saying they will organise a sit-in untill the borders with the Gaza Strip are open. October 20, 2023. Screenshot froma video by AFP News Agency. Fair use. This post by Haneen Shoukry was first published by Raseef 22 on May 8, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Our MENA team added the links to provide further clarification. On Tuesday, April 23, protesters in Cairo were detained while participating in a peaceful demonstration in support of women in Sudan and Gaza. Ironically, ...
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Thai activist Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom. Photo by Ginger Cat. Source: Prachatai, content partner of Global Voices. Thai activist Netiporn “Bung” Sanesangkhom died on May 14 while under pre-trial detention for charges related to royal defamation. Her death sparked outcry from human rights advocates, who urged the government to reform the lèse-majesté (royal insult) law and to stop persecuting state critics. Bung, 28, was an English tutor before she became involved with the youth-led democracy movement in 2020 that campaigned for the restoration of civilian rule. She later joined Thaluwang, a...
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A YouTube video of the protest song Glory to Hong Kong is blocked for local users, as of Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Photo: Screenshot via HKFP. Used with permission. This report was written by Tome Grundy and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on May 15, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Google has blocked Hong Kong users from accessing the pro-democracy protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” on YouTube (which is owned by Google) following a court order. It comes days after Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said the governme...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva Turkey, following in the footsteps of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary, and Georgia to name a few, is considering adopting its own version of the controversial foreign agent law. Expected to be submitted to the Grand National Assembly — Turkey's parliament — before the end of the legislative year on July 1, 2024, the package includes a legislative amendment that would introduce criminal penalties for what it calls “foreign influence agents” by expanding the definitions of “espionage” and “spying.” Critics and rights watchdogs say the proposal targets free expression and i...
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Moldovan president Maia Sandu giving an interview to YouTuber and journalist in exile Yurii Dud. Screenshot from video on Yurii Dud YouTube channel. Fair use. Moldovan president Maia Sandu recently gave an interview to Yurii Dud, a Russian journalist in exile. While the interview itself is both heartwarming and interesting — among other things, Sandu talks about Moldova's undivided support for Ukraine and hopes for integrating her country into broader European structures — it is quite unusual for a president to give an interview to a vlogger. In addition, Sandu's interview is in Russian. There...
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The European Union is urging Georgia's government to stick to the path of democratic reform to join the bloc, as the parliament is set to approve a bill that would tighten control on organisations receiving foreign funds. Protesters have gathered in front of the parliament building on Monday to protest against the so-called "Russian law," which is widely seen as Kremlin-type legislation aimed at stifling free speech. “Georgia after all is a candidate country, we hope, we expect, and we call on the authorities to go back on the European path and deliver on all the commitments they took upon the...
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Filipino journalists call for the release of a detained community journalist as they marked World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2024. Photo from the Facebook page of Altermidya, used with permission Media groups across Southeast Asia marked World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) on May 3 by organizing and releasing statements highlighting the various challenges and difficulties journalists face in fulfilling their work. Reflecting on the theme of WPFD this year, “A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis,” the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) expre...
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Collage with President Daniel Ortega and the repression of anti-government protests in 2018, by ProBox. Used with permission. This article was published on ProBox on April 28, 2024. An edited version is republished in Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. In early April 2024, the Ortega–Murillo government enacted a controversial “Peace Law,” which the Nicaraguan civil society actively challenged by contesting the government's narrative and defending the memory of the April 2018 protests on social media. The Nicaraguan Assembly decreed April as the “month of Peace” because April is...
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Social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the United States over a law that would force the company to sell the popular video-sharing app or face a ban. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday may be setting up what could be a protracted legal fight over TikTok's future in the US. The popular social video company alleged the law, which president Joe Biden signed as part of a larger $95 billion foreign aid package, is so "obviously unconstitutional" that the sponsors of The Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act are trying to portray t...
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s 2024 press freedom index. Photo: RSF. This report was written by Hilary Leung and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on May 3, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Hong Kong has again ranked low in a global press freedom index, as a watchdog cited an “unprecedented series of setbacks” including newsroom closures and journalist arrests under Beijing’s national security law. The city placed 135 out of 180 countries and territories in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s annual press fr...
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