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Bahrain has become the cornerstone of a counterrevolution to stanch change in the Middle East, but many fear the violence will beget more violence.
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The short version: Tor relays and bridges should upgrade to Tor 0.2.2.33 or Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha so users in Iran can reach them again.
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Spc. Alyssa Peterson was one of the first female soldiers who died in Iraq. Her death under these circumstances should have drawn wide attention. It’s not exactly the Tillman case, but a cover-up, naturally, followed.
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This book is an elaborated study of the use of social media in grassroots struggles in China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Malaysia by local researchers and activists.
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The tortured bodies of two people in their mid-twenties “hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge” were found with posters warning various sites that publish news of narco-terror incidents to stop, or suffer a similar fate.
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This Saturday, September 17th, concerned European citizens with the Freedom not Fear movement have decided to take their protest to the capital of the European Union, Brussels. Their slogan: Stop the surveillance mania!
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Amnesty International is calling for urgent action after an Israeli military commander renewed the administrative detention order against Ahmad Qatamesh by another six months last week.
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“Abdolfattah Soltani is one of the bravest human rights defenders in Iran. He has represented defendants in some of the most controversial human rights cases for over a decade, refusing to bow to pressure from the Iranian authorities,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa director. “Now he is again paying the price for that commitment.” ‘A Separation’, the widely celebrated film directed by Asghar Farhadi that won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, will be Iran’s official candidate at the Academy Awards. As reported by Tehran Bureau, many industry observers in Iran had felt that the film, known in Farsi as Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (Nader and Simin, A Separation), was unlikely despite its acclaim to get the nod for political reasons.
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US anti-war and pro-Palestine peace activists are targeted by the FBI for allegations of material support for terrorism.
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Some former Guantanamo detainees say the toll that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan took on their country is a bigger curse than the years they spent locked up.
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