Global Voices · Citizen media stories from June 2009

June, 2009

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Stories from June, 2009

21 June 2009

China: Mass incident sparked by a dead body

A Chinese Google doc has been set up to collect the most up-to-date information about the Shishou riot in China's Hubei province, which has seen tens of thousands of locals rallying on the street to protect the body of a young man who died under suspicious circumstances.

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20 June 2009

Iran: Protesters break a taboo and defy Khamenei

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

One day after Islamic Republic Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced protests and warned reformist leaders against taking to the streets, thousands of people demonstrated in Tehran. They were joined by others in several cities across Iran in ignoring Khamenei's order and voicing their anger against the June 12 presidential election results. They clashed with Iranian police who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them.

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Brazil: The country's largest university becomes a battlefield

Written by Paula Góes · Latin America

For a day in June, a peaceful protest against police occupation at Brazil's largest university became a bloody confrontation for the first time since the dictatorship in the 1970s. The blogosphere reports and discusses.

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19 June 2009

Egypt: A New Presidential Candidate in the Making

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

In September 2005 Ayman Nour of Al Ghad Party and No'man Goma'a of New Wafd Party nominated themselves against President Hosni Mubarak. Nour was charged with fraud and Goma'a was accused of insanity! Since 2000, Gamal Hosni Mubarak has the been groomed to be his father's successor as the next president with no apparent opponent. Today, rumor has it that Omar Soliman, Chief of The Egyptian General Intelligence Services, is an eligible presidential candidate.

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Iran: Reformist and activist bloggers arrested

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

As demonstrations continue in Iran against the results of the June 12 presidential elections, authorities continue their clampdown on activists, journalists and bloggers. Hamid Tehrani reviews the Iranian blogosphere, where several reports of blogger arrests are being circulated.

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Tanzania: Blogger arrested for publishing manipulated images of the president

Written by J. Nambiza Tungaraza · Sub-Saharan Africa

The alleged owner and blogger of the blog Ze Utamu (zeutamu.com) has been arrested in Tanzania. The alleged arrest has been in discussed at Jamii Forum, a popular Tanzanian Online...

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Updates from June, 2009

28 June 2009

Kyrgyzstan

Samat presents a photo-post on the action to protect the copyright and fight piracy, staged by the Kyrgyzstan's State Patient Service.

• Adil Nurmakov

Kazakhstan

Adam writes that journalists, rights advocates and opposition leaders, express concern that Kazakhstan returns to the vicious practice of the Soviet times in treating the dissent.

• Adil Nurmakov

Kazakhstan

Arman reports on a silent action of protest in the downtown of Almaty, Kazakhstan, in which journalists of independent newspapers, media organizations and opposition politicians put on scarves on their mouths in a symbolic demand of more freedom of speech.

• Adil Nurmakov

Turkmenistan

Musa reviews the “Worst of the Worst 2009″ report by Freedom House, which lists two Central Asian states - Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - among the world’s most repressive societies.

• Adil Nurmakov

Kyrgyzstan

Joshua Foust reports that according to the Kyrgyzstan’s regional administration, five armed individuals killed by the Kyrgyz national security troops were members of the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.

• Adil Nurmakov

Pakistan

Paksitani blog PKKH calls this a death of common sense: “Just when you think our so called ‘elected representatives’ can’t embarrass us anymore, they tend to prove us wrong. The Sindh Assembly has this morning held a minute’s silence as a mark of respect to Michael Jackson, on his sad demise.”

• Rezwan

Japan

Astronaut Koichi Wakata on the International Space Station posted some photographs, including one of Sarychev Volcano while it was erupting (Also part of NASA's Image of the Day Gallery), and a tanka poem: “My home planet enwrapped / The blue light of the atmosphere shines”.

• Tomomi Sasaki

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