Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2011 June 09

9 June 2011

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Stories from 9 June 2011

Syria: True Identity of Arrested Blogger Questioned

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

Since reports emerged that a Syrian blogger named Amina Arraf, known as “Gay Girl in Damascus” had been seized by authorities on Monday, 6 June 2011, serious doubts have surfaced that the blogger may not be who she claims.

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Iran: Record Breaking 20-Year Jail Sentence for Blogger

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Writing about Iranian bloggers offers few moments of respite. The sad stories are endless, and the threats don't seem to subside. The post explores the stories of three bloggers, Sakhi Rigi, Hossein Derakhshan, and Hossein Rongahi Maleki, who are each serving very long sentences in Iran.

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Egypt: When Citizen Media Did What Mainstream Media Wouldn't

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa

This first part of a documentary on the Egyptian Revolution tells it from the perspective of blogger and viral video producer Aalam Wassef, focusing on how online video and other media accompanied the process of civilian unrest.

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Updates from 9 June 2011

Laos

Maggie Dillon provides a short history of Rugby in Laos. The Lao Rugby Federation reaches out to the public through its website and Facebook page.

• Mong Palatino

Singapore

The voting for the Singapore Blog Awards 2011 will end on July 3.

• Mong Palatino

Cape Verde

Since water stopped running from the taps of the capital city of Cape Verde, Praia, more than two weeks ago due to improvement works, at first, and then to a breakdown at the central distribution point, bloggers have been demonstrating with poems in portuguese and creole, and posting satirical and funny pictures.

• Sara Moreira

Pakistan

Teeth Maestro is frustrated to learn about a recent extra judicial killing incident in Pakistan, where members of Pakistan Rangers shot down and killed one young man after a heated exchange of words.

• Rezwan

Pakistan

The Terrorland reports that a Pakistani intelligence agency has sexually abused several Pakistani journalists in situations of captivity or detention.

• Rezwan

Sri Lanka

Lefroy thinks that Sri Lankan blogosphere is on the decline and the blogger wishes bloggers would write “about things that matter: things like politics and religion instead of their sad little lives, but always with great passion and conviction”.

• Rezwan

Argentina

Buenos Aires Foodies has revisited their list of Argentine food writers, adding links to more blogs –some written in Spanish, others in English– on the subject.

• Silvia Viñas

Mexico

Paula Gonzalo from Periodismo Ciudadano interviewed [es] two of the collaborators behind Canal Gente Libre [es] (Free People Channel), an online channel ran mostly by citizen journalists in Oaxaca, Mexico that aims to act as a “counterweight to Mexican media monopolies”

• Silvia Viñas

El Salvador

“The protests continue over the action of the Salvadoran National Assembly to try and change the rules to make it more difficult for the country's highest court to rule laws unconstitutional. The law, called Decree 743, would require a unanimous vote of the court's five judges to invalidate an unconstitutional law”: Tim's El Salvador Blog reports.

• Silvia Viñas

Haiti

“These seem to have been important facts that were left out, but are an important part of the dynamics of Haitian politic[s] for the past 40 years under Preval, Aristide and Duvalier”: Stanley Lucas contends that biased analysis of the Haiti Wikileaks cables only serves to advance political agendas.

• Janine Mendes-Franco