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February, 2011

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Stories from February, 2011

17 February 2011

Bahrain: Police Attack Sleeping Protesters

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

This post is part of our special coverage of Bahrain Protests 2011. At around 3am Bahrain time, as protesters were sleeping at Pearl Roundabout, police troops attacked them with guns,...

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Bahrain: Police Attack Protesters at Pearl Roundabout

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

This post is part of our special coverage of Bahrain Protests 2011. The Bahraini police have just launched an attack on protesters at the Pearl Roundabout. Here are the reactions...

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16 February 2011

Bahrain: Safe Day for Protesters

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

It was a safe day for protesters in Bahrain today, with the police forces staying at bay, and allowing the protests to go unhampered. The day marks a total change to the police brutality protesters faced on the first and second day of the demonstrations, which saw the death of two protesters.

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Cuba: Cyberwar? Video Sparks Debate, Anger, Skepticism

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle · North America, Latin America

A video posted February 1st on Vimeo features a 52-minute presentation on new information technologies and a “ciberguerra” allegedly being waged on Cuba by the United States government and US-based NGOs. Initial reports called this a classified government video that had been leaked, but some bloggers (on and off the island) are questioning this assertion.

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Macedonia: Reactions to Kale Incident and Hate Speech

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

After Sunday's mass fighting between ethnic Macedonian and ethnic Albanian groups on Skopje Fortress - Kale, social media frequented by inhabitants of Macedonia buzzed with hate speech and reactions to it.

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Malawi: Muza Gondwe: Malawian Science Blogger

Written by Victor Kaonga · Sub-Saharan Africa

Meet Muza Gondwe, a female science blogger from Malawi who talks to our author, Victor Kaonga, about her science blog, Afrisciheroes.

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Updates from February, 2011

21 February 2011

Indonesia

Blogger Unspun blames the lack of accountability for the rise of religious violence in Indonesia.

• Mong Palatino

China

Junling Hu from Democracy in China reports and reflects upon the Jasmine Protest on 20 of February 2011.

• Oiwan Lam

Indonesia

Indonesian citizens and netizens have formed a solidarity group to promote religious freedom in the country following the spate of attacks on religious minorities in the past weeks

• Mong Palatino

Indonesia

Indonesia leads the countries in Southeast Asia with the most number of Foursquare users.

• Mong Palatino

20 February 2011

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Unlocked reports about one of the oldest mosques in the world (701 CE), the lost mosque of Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh.

• Rezwan

Nepal

Brian Adams recently toured Nepal and became the first world renowned music icon to play in the country. Ujjwal Acharya expresses his gratitude.

• Rezwan

Afghanistan

A UN report testifies that children in Afghanistan have been used both by anti-government elements for suicide bombings and planting explosives, and by the Afghan National Security Forces. It also covers facts of sexual violence committed by armed groups against boys and girls, Nick Fielding says.

• Adil Nurmakov

Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie

She plagiarized this story from a Croat, who is suing her. His pen name is James Braddock, but his real...
Serbs are showing their true colors with their insane reaction to this film. How shocking. Congratulations, you come off just...
I don't understand how anyone in their right mind would not have known a movie like this would have opened...