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August 26th, 2006
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Iran: Nuclear Crisis, Broken Satellite Dishes & Jailed Students
According to the media, Iran has delivered its formal response to the demand by world powers that it suspend uranium enrichment in exchange for a package of incentives. World media and bloggers, once more, are talking about the Iranian nuclear crisis and its outcome. Let's look at a few Iranian blogs:
Hoping for dialogue
Dowdani thinks all problems and differences between Iran and world powers can be solved in a rational way and hopes that dialogue takes place between Iran and the world powers [Fa]. He adds
اختلافهایی که همه را میتوان به روی میز مذاکره کشاند و خرد انسانی را به خدمت پاسخیابی به آنها درآورد. یکی از آنها هم
Dowdani also says that the US has had other historic differences with Iran and the nuclear crisis is just a pretext for them. (more…)
China: Patron saint of activist-bloggers?
How to describe twenty two-year old MSN Spaces blogger Zeng Jinyan? A threat to national security? An AIDS activist who brings support, joy and hope to countless AIDS orphans? A young wife radicalized after her husband was kidnapped by the state for over a month? Patron spokesblogger for otherwise voiceless victims of injustice within China's social justice circles? A post today [zh] tells that the 13 year-old daughter of mainland human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, following a recent stretch of house arrest, has slipped away from the twenty cops guarding her house.
Renowned liberal writer and blogger Yu Shicun posted the following ode to Zeng to his blog this week, lauding her bravery and actions against the backdrop of silent acquiescence from the majority of China's public intellectuals—a group in which Yu caustically includes himself—and the sentence yesterday of blind female reproductive rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng to four years in prison, about whom Zeng frequently writes:
——给金燕：我们时代的圣女
Jinyan, the Lady Saint of our Times
Links for Sat, 2006-08
Nigeria in pictures and Wole Soyinka on the future of Nigeria inside Aderemi’s Notebook.
Jikomboe (Swahili) on the New York Times article about African Languages Wikipedias: “How do you create an online encyclopedia when few native speakers have access to the Internet? What use is an encyclopedia when literacy rates among a language’s speakers can approach zero? (This is not a problem for Swahili.) And who should control the content of an encyclopedia in a local language if not enough native speakers are moved, or able, to contribute?”
A fishing village in Nigeria uses solar powered driers to dry their fish, reports Black Looks: “Bishop Kodji, a small fishing and canoe carving island in the Atlantic Ocean off Nigeria’s sprawling commercial hub of Lagos, has become the first village to be electrified under the Lagos State government’s pilot solar energy project. Before setting up the project, the village, with a population of 5,000, had not known electricity since its existence.”
Yasavoli, blogger & journalist talks about how in the State run Iran newspaper, journalists who are not supporters of Ahmadinejad, loosing their jobs. The blogger considers this firing of journalists as a quiet military coup in this newspaper [Fa].
Bishop An Shuxin of China's underground Catholic Church has been released after ten years in prison, blogs China Digital Times‘ Liu Yong.
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