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The blog brings to you some of what we are reading in persian on the internet in news sites, Facebook, Twitter…*

What is hapenning right now in Iran? Why?

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On March 17th, two American journalists - Euna Lee and Laura Ling - were taken into custody by the North Korean military. The two women were reporting on the trafficking of women along the border with China.
The women were charged with "hostile acts" and illegally entering the country, then sentenced to 12 years of "reform through hard labor."

:: included here: quick links to know more, video, and cyberactions !

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ISN'T IT A LITTLE ODD THAT WE AS AMERICANS CAN DEMAND JUSTICE AND FAIR TRIALS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY , ( AMERICAN JOURNALIST ROXANA SABERI RECENTLY GIVEN A FAIR TRIAL IN IRAN ) , AND AT THE SAME TIME WHEN IT COMES FOR US AS THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD TO OFFER NEW AND FAIR TRIALS FOR OUR OWN POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN CITIZENS IN GEORGIA & PENNSYLVANIA , WE CAN SOMEHOW ACCEPT THE EASIER ROUTE OF ALLOWING TWO POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN CITIZENS TO BE FALSELY EXECUTED ?

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After the result of the parliamentary elections was made public, huge protests started on the streets of Chisinau on April 7th.

First paragraph (Teaser): Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, describes how her media crew was violently targeted and trapped by police, how secret services ripped away her top-security-clearance credentials without warrant and how the police "preemptively" raided the I-Witness Video Collective.

Sept. 4th 2008, dozens of media reporters, including mass media such as CNN and CBC, were arrested along with 818 other citizens for peacefully protesting at a distance out of the Republicain convention. TheREALnews team was also arrested and fined amongst the media who refused to be embedded with the police. This is there brief video documentary report.

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Only a traitor wearing an American uniform wouldn’t recognize
these substantiated charges as highly treasonous. Like, to
the extreme. The bushmob paid the informant 5 million dollars
in hush money, and, anyway, the bushmob had unrestricted
access to go wherever they pleased without delay prior to
bombing Iraqi women and children indiscriminately.

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SOME HIGHLIGHTS:

- More than 100 book, distributor, zine and group tables from Montreal, Quebec, North America and beyond (on May 17 only)

- Introductory Workshops to Anarchism (May 17), including: "Demanding the Impossible: Sharing Visions of Anarchism" (with the views of thirty local anarchists) and "An Introduction to Anarchism and its Aspirations"

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The makers of “911 In Plane Site” have been locked out of their own website, content has been suppressed, and funds have been illegally diverted.

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The REAL News Network, March 16th, 2008.

Iraqi journalist Salam Talib describes the divide between the American and Iraqi perspective of the war

Salam Talib is an Iraqi citizen. He worked as a translator for US journalists after the war and started reporting from Iraq himself in 2005. He recently moved to San Francisco to study computer engineering.

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After nearly two months in prison, the chief editor of the Indian magazine People's March has finally been released after paying a $2,500(US) bail, following accusations from the so-called "communist" authorities of Kerala state that he played a role in "insurrectional activities." This also comes after the 68-year old journalist's hunger strike to protest his detention shortly after his arrest. The People's March magazine is published legally in India, and presents itself as the "voice of the revolution." The allegations made against Govindan Kutty have no serious legal basis; it was motivated by the need to silence a voice that reports on popular topics and supports the cause of Maoist guerillas fighting in the country.

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A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country’s rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after “liberation�? and under the democratic rule of the West’s ally Hamid Karzai.

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The Independant UK
By Kim Sengupta, Thursday, 31 January 2008

Update: The NDP has passed, by a unanimous vote, the following motion: That this House condemns the proposed execution of the Afghan journalism student, Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, and calls on the Government of Canada to intervene with the government of Afghanistan to have all criminal proceedings against Sayed Pervez Kambaksh immediately abandoned.
[ 39:2 Hansard - 43 (2008/2/4) (1505) - Reported by the Canadian Press in Le Devoir ]

Why here on an Indymedia ?
Normally, we of course avoid commercial articles but, after a few days, I have reason to fear that "journalists" and reporters in Quebec (and maybe Canada) will let this young man in silence. A silent complicity considering the obvious reasons why the people have the right to know that "our Afghan ally" is murdering young journalists, feminists, human rights activists, etc. -Mic, Quebec-Indymedia member

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Mr. Arthur Topham, publisher of The Radical Press in Canada, has become the latest free speech target for the Israel Lobby. Is North America destined to go the way of Western Europe by designating and prosecuting "thought crime"?

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Precisely at the beginning of the school's vacation period, the radiozapote collective is being threatened with removal from our space

To the ENAH community
To radio listeners and users of the sounds community
To the free and independent news media
To human rights organizations:

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Paul Modrowski, of Illinois, U.S.A., convicted of Murder 1 on an accountability basis for supposedly lending his car to a supposed killer -- who was acquitted -- seeks release from prison for Christmas.

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* The collective editors of the Venezuelan journal El Libertario and the Organizacion Nelson Garrido, have issued a call out for filmmakers and video activists from all over the world to present their recent autonomous works concerning active social movements in struggle. This will be held in Caracas, Venezuela, between the 21st and the 28th of January 2008.