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Bassel Khartabil, also known as Bassel Safadi, is on military trial in Syria, where he is denied a lawyer. The open source software engineer and Creative Commons volunteer has been in jail since March.
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Leunig defends his cartoon “First they came for the Palestinians”
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Michael Leunig : The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Homosexuality may start in the womb
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Mother of American Torture Victim José Padilla Brings Case Before International Human Rights Tribunal
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U.S. Courts Have Denied Recourse
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Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement
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After three months in solitary confinement Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be released from custody.
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WCIT-12 leak shows Russia, China, others seek to define ‘government-controlled Internet’
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Leaked proposals from the U.N. WCIT-12 summit show Russia, China, and similar regimes are making a bid to define the Internet as a system of government-controlled networks.
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No Warrant, No Problem: How The Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data
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Here’s what law enforcement can get on you without establishing “probable cause.”…
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Israel must explain targeting of journalists in Gaza – Committee to Protect Journalists
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Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu: The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned that Israeli airstrikes targeted individual journalists and media facilities in the Gaza Strip between November 18 and 20.
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A free and open world depends on a free and open web.
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Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice.
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