Free Speech
Geo News Blocked in Sindh
Its just being reported that Geo News transmission has been blocked in certain areas of Karachi - I personally can verify that the Geo News feed on Worldcall is dead, while the GeoTv website has this to report
KARACHI: Geo Network’s transmission has been stopped in most parts of Karachi. Cable operators blocked the transmission [...]
Cyber Crime Law promulgated by President Zardari
It has just been reported that President Asif Ali Zardari has promulgated the Cyber Crime Law with effect from September 29th 2008. Though this is may surely be an important law but the problem with the initial draft as it was presented in 2007 by the Ministry of Information that it literally did not [...]
Two GC College students sent to Jail for protesting
Two Government College Lahore students were sent to jail on Wednesday after an Anti-Terrosism Court Judge Shabbir Husain Chattha sent both Ravians — Usman Lateef and Haroon Mahmood — behind bars on judicial remand for 14 days. The students were arrested them from their homes on Tuesday midnight for protesting the Government College University [...]
[MiniLinks] Sony recalls PS3 game Little Big Planet because of ‘Arabic’ words
Sony Entertainment has announced that it is recalling the Playstation 3 video game, LittleBigPlanet, from retailers after it learned that the soundtrack featured some Arabic-language lines which were also in the Quran and backed with music Sony said that “one of the background music tracks licensed from a record label for use in the game [...]
FIA ‘might’ have instructions to get Anti-Zardari campaigners
Found at Nandos Clifton, Karachi
Ahmed Quraishi a pro-Musharraf campaigner has recently published a report where he claims that the FIA might have been instructed to get hold of people making fun of our President Mr. Asif Ali Zardari
Ahmed Qureshi.com President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down Pakistanis writing jokes [...]
The victory of ‘US lead war against terror’: on US judicial system and human rights
Guest Blog by Silence from Islamabad Observer
A United States court Thursday found American-educated Pakistani doctor Aafia Siddiqi guilty on charges to attack U.S army in Afghanistan as a member of Al-Qaeda, said a statement released from US court. This statement is a declaration of the first defeat of United States judicial system in so-called war [...]
GVSession08: Day 2 Session 3: When Biases Meet Biases
MODERATOR: Xiao Qiang.
Speakers: Isaac Mao(Entrepreneur and Researcher, China), Rebecca MacKinnon (University of Hong Kong and Global Voies), John Kennedy (Chinese Language Editor, Global Voices)
The March 10 protests in Lhasa on the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule immediately won the sympathy and support of Western media outlets, bloggers, and human rights [...]
GVSummit08: Day 2 Session 2: The Wired Electorate in Emerging Democracies
MODERATOR: Solana Larsen.
SPEAKERS: Daudi Were (Kenya), Onnik Krikorian (Armenia), Hamid Tehrani (Iran), Luis Carlos Díaz (Venezuela)
The rise of blogging, social networking and micro-blogging services like Facebook and Twitter, video- and photo-sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, and the spread of mobile technology ave given ordinary citizens the means, at least potentially, to participate [...]
GVSummit08: Day 1 Wrap up
A good roundup by Rebecca MacKinnon at the end of the first day of Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008. Budapest, June 27, 2008
GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 5: NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices
MODERATOR: Xiao Qiang.
SPEAKERS: Elijah Zarwan (Human Rights Watch), Clothilde Le Coz (Bureau Internet et Libertés, Reporters Without Borders), Rebecca MacKinnon (Global Voices & University of Hong Kong), Nasser Weddady (Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance), Stephanie Hankey (Tactical Tech), Antony Loewenstein (Amnesty International Australia’s campaign Uncensor)
How can NGOs seeking to advance freedom of expression most [...]
GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 3: Living with Censorship
MODERATOR: Awab Alvi
SPEAKERS: Helmi Noman (Researcher - Middle East & North Africa), Razan (Free Tariq, Syria), CJ Hinke (Freedom Against Censorship, Thailand), Andrew Heavens (Sudan), Rezwan (Bangladesh), John Kennedy (China)
Dealing with blocked access to popular websites and unclear restrictions about what can and cannot be published online has become an ordinary fact of life for [...]
GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 2: Citizen Media and Online Free Speech
MODERATOR: Mary Joyce.
SPEAKERS: Ory Okolloh (Kenyan Blogger), Wael Abbas (MisrDigital, Egypt), Mehdi Mohseni (jomhour.org, Iran), Amine (digiactive.org, Morocco), Oiwan Lam (Global Voices, Hong Kong), Au Wai Pang (Singapore)
Citizen media allow for more active and open participation in political processes, but threats of censorship and oppression discourage citizens from expressing their own opinions. This session will [...]
GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 1: Toward a Global anti-censorship network
MODERATOR: Helmi Noman.SPEAKERS: Andrey Abozau, (Belarusian activist from LuNet), Chris Salzberg (Global Voices, Japan), Alaa Abdel Fatah (Egyptian Blogger), Ethan Zuckerman (Global Voices), Awab Alvi (Don’t Block The Blog, Pakistan)
Internet censorship by governments around the world has threatened both freedom of expression and free access to information. In response, free speech activists are leading [...]
GlobalVoices Advocacy Summit ‘08
I share with you the Global Voices Advocacy Summit help today on 26th June 2008 at Budapest, Hungary. I apologize for posting this live blog late after the event, it was more because I arrived in Budapest at noon after a 13-hour journey, and screeched into the meeting room just before lunch.
The advocacy [...]
GlobalVoices Summit ‘08 Budapest, Hungary
I am scheduled to depart for Budapest, Hungary in a few hours to attend the Global Voices Summit 08 and also be a part of the Advocacy session a day before. In the next few days, I hope to blog extensively about the Global Voices Summit and then later maybe share my travel experience [...]
