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5 December 2009

Daily archive · 3 posts

Stories from 5 December 2009

Chile: A Proper Funeral for Víctor Jara

Written by Issa Villarreal · Latin America

On December 3 Chilean community celebrated a proper funeral for singer songwriter Víctor Jara, who was murdered 36 years ago during the military coup of Pinochet and has been an unparalleled influence on artists and musicians around the world.

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Russia: Online Forum Beats Media in Covering Night Club Fire

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Eastern & Central Europe

Fire at the night club "Lame Horse" in a central Russian city Perm killed more than 100 people. Local online forum Teron.ru quickly became the main source of information about the tragedy for ordinary citizens and mainstream media.

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Cameroon: Video Shows Harsh Conditions of Rural Medicine

Written by Jennifer Brea · Sub-Saharan Africa

As in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, doctors in Cameroon work without adequate training or equipment--a fact that in itself is not surprising, but is made disturbingly real by four young Americans who shot this amateur video of surgery in a rural hospital in Cameroon. Posted on 20mai.net, a Camerounian citizen media site, the video provoked a heated discussion.

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Updates from 5 December 2009

Ecuador

Christian from Cobertura digital comments on Ecuador's most frequent Google searches in 2009 [es] as service Zeitgeist opens results for the country for the first time.

• Issa Villarreal

Jordan

For a preview on the dating scene in Amman, Jordan, check out House of Curiosity.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Iran

Fariba Pajooh, an Iranian blogger and journalist, has been in prison for more than 100 days. According to [fa] Ghomar Asheghaneh, an Iran based blogger, her parents do not know what to do and her father is in a bad physical condition.[Update: She was released on 23th of Decmeber 2009].

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Hadi Ghaemi, a leading human rights activist, writes in Huffingtonpost: “Much of the international public and media consider mass protests in Iran to have ended, because images of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators no longer appear on TV screens… But the protest movement is alive and continues to challenge the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, and to demand fundamental rights.”

• Fred Petrossian