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February, 2011

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Stories from February, 2011

16 February 2011

Bahrain: Pro-Government, Pro-King Voices Emerge

Written by Yacoub Al-Slaise · Middle East & North Africa

As the third day of protests in Bahrain continues this Wednesday 16 February, 2011, numerous voices have stepped up to show support for King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and the Bahraini government.

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Rwanda: Blogging From Inside Rwanda: A Conversation With Graham Holiday

Written by Etienne Mashuli · Sub-Saharan Africa

Etienne Mashuli speaks with Graham Holliday, an award winning blogger, a freelance media trainer and foreign correspondent. Graham runs Kigali Wire, a news wire, photojournalism site and blog.

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Russia: Blogger Pays for Badmouthing Putin Online

Written by Dmitry Davidov · Eastern & Central Europe

Rapid development of RuNet in recent years has only stared testing the limits of what one can say online. But the army of bloggers and their enthusiastic efforts to defend the online freedom paint an optimistic picture of the blogosphere's future.

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North and South Korea Mark Kim Jong-il's 69th Birthday

Written by Lee Yoo Eun · East Asia

Whilst North Korea celebrates its leader, Kim Jong-il's 69th birthday today, South Korean human rights activists sent a rather unconventional birthday gift to Kim: gigantic balloons carrying leaflets lambasting the regime. South Koreans net users took the opportunity to speculate how to ignite social changes in North Korea.

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Bahrain: Funeral Procession Marks Third Day of Protests

Written by Yacoub Al-Slaise · Middle East & North Africa

Wednesday February 16, 2011 is the third day of Bahrain's 'Day of Wrath' protests; it has kicked off with the funeral of Fadhel Al-Matrook, who died after mourners faced excessive force from riot police during Tuesday's procession for the first fallen protester Ali Mushaima.

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Iran: Jailed blogger Hossein Ronaghi in Danger

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Hossein Ronaghi Malki, an Iranian blogger, is serving a 15 year prison sentence, and is confined in the security ward of Evin Prison, deprived of contact with his family or his lawyer. Mojtaba Samienejad, a human rights activist and secretary of the Human Rights House of Iran, told BBC Persian that Ronaghi is in need of urgent surgery and is in critical condition.

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Updates from February, 2011

20 February 2011

Afghanistan

Nick Fielding reviews the report from the UK House of Lords, noting that the EU's mission to train local police in Afghanistan risks failure, as only about 285 experts had been sent by member states to train the Afghan police - well short of the 400 requested.

• Adil Nurmakov

Uzbekistan

Marat Sartpaev reports that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake, Jr. traveled to Uzbekistan as relations between two countries started turning less tense over the last couple years.

• Adil Nurmakov

Iran

Several sites and blogs such as Hambastge reported [fa] protesters chanted anti regime slogans in several cities on Sunday. There is also a demonstration in front of State run TV building in Tehran.

• Fred Petrossian

19 February 2011

Colombia

“A new report shows that 280,000 Colombians were displaced in 2010, and one-third of these were in areas the government claimed were “consolidated.” Colombia has a total of 5.2 million displaced people, roughly 1 out of every 9 Colombians, and the most in the world,” writes Greg Weeks in Two Weeks Notice.

• Silvia Viñas

Unzipped comments on what appears to be an orchestrated black PR campaign against a local musician in Armenia. One of four finalists in the running to compose the country's entry into this year's Eurovision Song Contest, reports in the local media attack Vahram Petrosyan for considering that Armenian and Azerbaijani music is similar. The blog wonders where “this recent resurgence of ‘bloodthirstiness’ came from?”

• Onnik Krikorian

Serbia: The Media War Against Angelina Jolie

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