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URGENT ACTION: DEMAND THE RELEASE OF ONLINE NEWS EDITOR

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UPDATE: RSF is reporting Chiranuch Premchaiporn has been released on bail of 200, 000 bahts. As of the latest reports, charges still stand against her.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn, an online news …


Foreign Journalists Tell of Arrests and Beatings of Press Corps in Iran

I received a first hand report from an Iranian I know inside Iran that he was arrested and his cameras were taken away from him.

Also this has appeared on …


Karl Rove IT Guru Set to Testify Dies in Plane Crash

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continue reading at AlterNet… 


ALERT: Somali Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Canadian and Australian Journalists

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Amanda Lindhout

While I was in Afghanistan last summer I met a young, budding photojournalist named Amanda Lindhout.  She was kidnapped this past August in Somalia along with her …


ALERT: Demos Rock Downtown Nairobi

A large mob of several hundred people poured into the streets of downtown Nairobi today in support of jailed mungiki leader Maina Njenga. Clashes with police ensued.

UPDATE: Several hundred …


ALERT: US Bombs Kenya Somali Border

REPORT: One AC-130 bomber flew over the Somali-Kenyan border yesterday Sunday March 2, 2008, in an airstrike upon the Somali town of Dhoble, killing 6 and injuring 20 according …