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15 April 2007

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Stories from 15 April 2007

Interview with Kazis Toguzbayev, Journalist/Blogger from Kazakhstan

Written by Leila Tanayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

Kazis Toguzbayev is a Kazakhstani journalist/blogger, who was sued for insulting the honor and the dignity of the president in January 2007 when he uploaded two articles on a group blog KUB.kz. Kazis is 59, married and has grandchildren. He is a colonel of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan in reserve and a pensioner for 10 years now. We spoke about the lessons that he learned after the trial and about the citizen journalism in Kazakhstan.

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Taiwan: Bloggers' Further Action on Saving Losheng Sanatorium

Written by Pipper Lee · East Asia

As mentioned in the previous post, discussions and actions on saving Lo-Sheng Sanatorium have widely spread in Taiwan blogosphere. Now the whole event has also attracted attention from mainstream media,...

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Morocco: Bloggers talk about the soul of Morocco and recent bombings

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

Thanks to a New York Times article entitled “The Soul of Morocco”, the Moroccan blogosphere is busy debating the truth in this statement. Fez, a city of approximately 1 million,...

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Lebanon: Remembering the Civil War

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

April 13, 1975 is officially the date when the Lebanese civil war began. It lasted for 15 years and it officially ended in 1990 after the Taif agreement. More than...

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Kuwait: Bloggers' Show Aired Following Protests

Written by Abdullatif AlOmar · Middle East & North Africa

Popular Kuwaiti television show Al Diwaniya is being aired again - following protests from some of Kuwait's bloggers. The show, which was expected to feature interviews with some bloggers in...

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Updates from 15 April 2007

Iran

Kamangir reports in Jam-e- Jam,a newspaper published by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB),the relativity theory was decorated with a picture of Einstein writing on a blackboard. Instead of mathematical equations we read:I made the worse mistake ever to discover atom and stuff!! Hey! Mahmoud[Ahmadnejad]! for God’s sake forget it!

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

MS (Multiple Sclerosis) patients and their familes protested in front of a central pharmacy in Tehran because of the shortage of medicines as Hamid Sadi shows in this photo.

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Here are several photos of women of Tehran's pre-revolution brothel district.Photos were taken in the Citadel of the New City — “Shahreno” — was Tehran's brothel district before the 1979 Revolution.

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

According to Varsh[Fa],two women activists, Nahid Keshvarz and Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, are out of jail.They were arrested about two weeks ago when explaining people One Million Signatures Campaign.This campaign wants to put an end to discriminatory laws against women.

• Fred Petrossian

Nigeria

Hac Lege on state elections in Nigeria: “As expected, the polls at the recently concluded state elections in Nigeria is eliciting condemnation for various quarters, even before an announcement of results. The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has even gone ahead to cancel some of the results from some states in the federation.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Taiwan (ROC)

Several bloggers joined a demonstration held on April 15 for saving the Lo-sheng sanatorium. They took an interesting flag inspired from a featured Gundam-like lantern called “Gundam is protecting the Lo-Sheng”, which was placed in the sanatorium.

• Pipper Lee

Iraq

Iraqi blogger Hassan Kharuffa writes about speculations on the results of the referendum on the Iraqi constitution. “There are 18 provinces in Iraq. If the results in any three of them was more than 66% against the constitution, the constitution will be rejected. Then the whole process will be repeated, and it will be 6 months before another constitution will be presented, which I don't think will be much different from this one,” he writes.

• Amira Al Hussaini