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Collage by Arzu Geybullayeva. Images free to use courtesy of Global Voices’ content partners. June 21, marked a year since the Azerbaijani village of Söyüdlü was rocked by environmental protests organized by local residents objecting to the construction plans for a second artificial lake, also known as the tailing dam. Footage of riot police using disproportionate physical force, rubber bullets, and tear gas against village residents was widely reported by the local media at the time. At least five village residents received administrative detentions and one resident received an administrative...
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Alondra Santiago. Screenshot from video “Canción de la semana | ¡Salve, oh patria!” (Song of the week | Hail, O Fatherland!) from her YouTube channel IngoEc. Fair use. “Hail, O Fatherland” is Ecuador's national anthem. In the early hours of June 25, 2024, Cuban journalist Alondra Santiago took to X (formerly Twitter), to share the the notification she received from the Ministry of External Affairs and Human Mobility. The Ministry revoked her visa which had allowed her to live in Ecuadorian territory for 19 years. The notification was signed by Vice Minister Alejandro Dávalos. The Foreign Minis...
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A Myanmar smartphone user checks Facebook in 2021. Photo from The Irrawaddy, used with permission. This article by Mi Ei Thinzar Myint was originally published in The Irrawaddy, an independent news website in Myanmar. This edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Myanmar’s military regime blocked Facebook and other messaging apps following the 2021 coup in a bid to restrict freedom of expression and communication that it believes threatens its rule. The people of Myanmar were using virtual private networks (VPNs), either paid or free versions, to b...
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Image © 2024 Appcensorship. Used with permission. When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok, along with other globally popular social media platforms, is also unavailable in China. Conversely, ByteDance tailor-made a local version, Douyin, for Chinese users, to comply with the country’s stringent censorship rules. In fact, TikTok is n...
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No internet in Gaza. Screenshot from a video “Can Starlink Provide Internet To Gaza?” by Interesting Engineering. Fair use. When the combination of big tech and politics failed the Palestinian people by overlooking the internet disruptions affecting Gaza, grassroots technology known as the “network tree” came to the rescue. Utilizing the humblest of elements such as buckets, smartphones, and e-SIMs, this ingeniously simple technology provided much-needed connectivity to a community fragmented by war, in the face of severely damaged infrastructure. Since the war on Gaza began in the aftermath o...
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Photos of 11 journalists from Kyrgyzstan who were arrested in January 2024. Screenshot from the video “Дело против 11 журналистов сфабриковано // Temirov Live” from Temirov Live YouTube channel. Fair use. This article was written by Alva Omarova for Vlast.kz and published on May 22, 2024. An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. In May, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published their 2024 press freedom index, highlighting the region-wide crackdown on freedom of expression in Central Asia. While Turkmenistan remains at the bottom of the table, the sco...
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A communications tower in Indonesia. Source: Flickr photo by Richard Wasserman, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Media groups, academics, and human rights advocates are opposing a bill containing proposed amendments to Indonesia’s Broadcasting Law, which would restrict the broadcast of investigative reports and LGBTQ+ content. Introduced in 2020, the bill was deliberated at the House of Representatives in 2023 and minor revisions were made on May 16, 2024. Proponents said updating the 2002 law is necessary to develop a “sustainable broadcasting industry” and to address the challenges brought about by the rise ...
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Punjab Assembly House in Lahore, Pakistan. Image by Voice of America via Wikipedia. Public Domain. On May 20, 2024, the legislative assembly of the state of Punjab in Pakistan passed the Defamation Bill 2024 despite strong protests from the opposition benches and journalists in the gallery. The bill focuses on limiting the spread of fake news across print, electronic, and social media platforms against government officials and institutions. This bill has jurisdictional issue as it would apply to people outside the state of Punjab as well. Under the bill, any individual can be held liable for m...
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Screenshot: Sky News Australia YouTube video – Same-sex parenting book ban defended by Cumberland City Councillor When Sydney’s Cumberland City Council placed a ban on the book Same-sex Parents in its eight public libraries, it was bound to cause controversy. In addition, the issue highlighted Australia’s record of historical and current censorship. There was immediate online outrage. David Tyler, aka Urban Wronski, summed up the negative reactions: “We’re going to make it clear tonight that … these kind of books, same-sex parents books, don’t find their way to our kids,” Christou said during ...
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Nadezhda Kevorkova standing in court in Moscow. Screenshot from the video “Очередной журналист брошен в тюрьму за посты – Надежда Кеворкова в Басманом суде Москвы” from Sotavision‘s YouTube channel. Fair use. On May 7, the well-known 65-year-old Muslim journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova was arrested in Moscow and sent to a pre-trial detention center for two months in a criminal case for “justifying terrorism.” The accusation is based on the two posts on her Telegram channel “Kevorkova.”. The first one was published in 2018, and it is a repost of the text written by Russian journalist Orkhan Dzhemal...
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