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7 June 2007

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Stories from 7 June 2007

Serbia: The Lustration Law

Written by Sinisa Boljanovic · Eastern & Central Europe

Serbia's parliament passed the Lustration Law in 2003 - but it has still not been implemented. The Serbian public knows that the Serbian Radical Party and the Social Party of Serbia are against the implementation of the Lustration Law, while the liberal Democratic Party continues to be in its favor. What the Serbian public does not know is why the Serbian government, which, naturally, has to carry out an order of the parliament, does not put the Lustration Law into effect.

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Iran: Second Cultural Revolution Coming?

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Universities in different parts of Iran are experiencing a new wave of repression by security forces. Between 6-8 student activists, members of student associations, and independent professors who dare to...

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China: Flickr filtered

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

The distinct 2.0ness with which an unprecedented environmental protest was carried out last week in southern China's seaside Xiamen city seems to have resulted, as of June 7, in the...

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Sri Lanka: State Sponsored Abductions

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

Lanka Whistle-Blower on what appear to be state sponsored abductions. ” It started with abductions of Tamil businessmen, and extended to the Muslim community, and has now made the transition...

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Egypt: Banned Documentary, Cairo Metro Strike, Torture Trial and More

Written by Freedom For Egyptians · Middle East & North Africa

It's all happening in Egypt - from the release of jailed bloggers, to the trial of corrupt officers implicated in torture videos which are spreading like a bush on fire on the Internet. Freedom for Egyptians brings us the latest from the Egyptian blogs in this round up which includes a story on the banning of a video on the Baha'i faith and a metro strike in down town Cairo.

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Korea: Have You Ever Killed a Person?

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

A sixteen year-old Korean girl who became famous due to the extreme success of losing weight killed herself. To please her grandmother who was worried about her grand-daughter’s heavy weight,...

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Japan: The Matsuoka Suicide

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

The story is now over a week old, and yet the sensational suicide of Agriculture Minister Matsuoka Toshikatsu, who hung himself in his apartment on May 28th and later died...

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Updates from 7 June 2007

Ukraine

Scenes from the Sidewalk reports on the work of a newly-created “mobile unit” whose aim is to assist Kyiv “street children or children in at-risk situations.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Dykun returns to blogging with a post on the plight of Ukraine's Rusyns, who were recently recognized as an indigenous nationality of the Transcarpathian region.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Two-Zero and The Turkish Invasion write about what looks like a semi-end of the golden age of Gorbushka, Moscow's legendary “pirate DVD empire.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Sean's Russia Blog reports that at the G8 Summit, Bush and Putin “appeared to come to some agreement over the placing of missile defense systems in East Europe” - thanks to the surprise “Azeri option.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Egypt

“Unfortunately, someone gained access to our FTP, databases, and host panel and managed to take down all our websites, including this one. Everything was affected: files, plugins, backups, posts. Lalith our webmaster is still in the process of recovering our data. Please be patient with us if you note any problems with the site; we are aware of the issues and we are working on fixing it,” is the announcement you will find today at the Free Kareem site, put up by volunteers to pressure Egypt to release blogger Kareem Nabil Sulaiman, who has been sentenced to four years in prison for articles he wrote online.

• Amira Al Hussaini

India

a reader's words on the protests at the G8 venue. “Why are these people protesting? The answer is very simple- even as globalization creates islands of the first world in the malls in Shanghai and Bangalore, it is also creating a Third World-like underclass in the developed world.”

• Neha Viswanathan

India

Dina Mehta is concerned by Google's apparent disregard for user privacy, given their common login protocols across their services. “In countries like India however, where for the large part, computers are shared at work and home - this could become a problem. Not everyone has the know-how or the presence of mind to set up different logins and user accounts at boot up.
Look at Google's acquisition over the years - they are buying up the best really. And our lives are enriched and simpler as a result. I love using many of these and it makes my life better. But yesterday's experience with setting up my friend's blog got me thinking in the longer term - and I kept pondering over - what cost? “

• Neha Viswanathan

Sri Lanka

Open Maze and other blogs on the death of Prof. V.K. Samaranayake. “This is shocking news; he was the founder of the BIT (Bachelor of Information Technology- External) program at the University of Colombo (UCSC). Thanks to him lots of people, including me got the opportunity to step into the IT world. “

• Neha Viswanathan