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November, 2010

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Stories from November, 2010

18 November 2010

Brunei: Suicide attempt stirs online buzz

A suicide attempt by a young woman in Brunei generated an online buzz, especially on Facebook and Twitter. Bloggers criticize the "insensitive" jokes and funny reactions made by some netizens about the issue

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China: Reporter steps up to Obama and asks for trouble

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

At a press conference held by American president Obama in Korea this week, one highly popular young reporter became the center of polarizing controversy at home not due to the content of his question, but in how it was asked.

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Egypt: Kareem Amer is Free!

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

After spending a total of 1,470 days in prison, Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer has finally been released. That period is 10 more days than the four year sentence he was slapped with for insulting Islam and President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt on his blog.

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17 November 2010

Tunisia: Launch a Blog Campaign Kicks Off

Written by Lina Ben Mhenni · Middle East & North Africa

After a seven-month lull in blogging activities, thanks to a crackdown by authorities which resulted in the blockage of more than 100 blogs, Tunisian bloggers are joining forces to encourage even more people to start sharing their thoughts and experiences online. Launch a Blog campaign has just been launched with the aim of attracting new bloggers to fight back censorship.

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Iran: Online Rage against Lebanese Hezbollah Leader

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Several Iranian bloggers have reacted to an online video where Lebanese Hezbollah Leader, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, makes the controversial claims that Iran does not have any Persian civilisation and that the Islamic Republic's founder was of Arab ancestry.

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Russia: Controversy as Cyrillic Domains Hit the Open Market

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · RuNet Echo

This post is part of our special coverage Languages and the Internet. On November 11, 2010, registration for Internet domains in Cyrillic script, the writing system used by Russian and...

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Updates from November, 2010

25 November 2010

Cuba

“We are surrounded by a repression that does not sign papers, show its face, or place a stamp next to each act which violates its own law”: Generation Y is waiting for answers.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

With the country's recent abstention from the UN vote allowing executions of LGBT people, BFP says: “I have always found it shameful that Barbados – a nation founded with the assistance of chains, whips, rape and cultural genocide – now so easily supports nations involved in slavery and human rights violations.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bermuda

“Truth be told, there is no way to stop people from smoking weed”: bermudashorts suggests that if politicians want to have “a meaningful conversation with young people about weed”, they will need to understand that most of them “don’t want to be fed a bunch of lies about marijuana’s ill effects.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Ukraine

@Matteush reads tweets marked with the #kat_ua hashtag, concludes (UKR) that “the whole country has risen to protest bandit tax code”: rallies and strikes by entrepreneurs are taking place in (UKR, RUS) Chernivtsi, Rivne, Odessa, Lutsk, Kharkiv, Lviv. In Kyiv, some 30,000 are said to have gathered at Maidan, and many more are still arriving; live broadcast is here, live updates (UKR) and photos - here. @Outofscope writes this (RUS) to protesters who are still on their way to the rally: “It's cold at Maidan, dress warm!”