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It has been over two weeks that Fasih Mahmood was practically disappeared from his residence in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, where he worked as an engineer. On 13 May, Sunday, Mahmood was taken away by a group of Indian and Arab men, all in civil dress, and their house searched, while his wife, Nikhat Perveen, was held in a room by an Arab woman.
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Prolonged Solitary Confinement at Pelican Bay is Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Torture, Lawyers Say
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Lawmakers in New York State are proposing a new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it’s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. Politicians in the Empire State want to outlaw anonymous speech on the Internet.
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We live in a world in which knowledge has become a premium resource and intellectual property regimes and patentis trump access to life saving drugs and information.
The dream of a liberatory internet, a great leveler that would open us up to spaces and ideas and people, is fading fast as bilateral agreements are made that decide who owns what, when, where, why and how; who has the right to speak on what and to whom.
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Los Angeles school punishment data attract federal scrutiny…
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…there are three main camps in Bahraini politics – the government, the opposition, and the loyalist opposition – that do not fall neatly along sectarian lines.
