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- Category:
- Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes
- Description:
- http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/oiwan/
Will Moss @ Imagethief:
"OK, technically she isn't in jail. But the Global Voices editor is at the center of a somewhat ridiculous enforcement action by Hong Kong's Obscene Articles Tribunal."
She's not in jail or digging up the USD50,000 potential maximum fine she faces—yet.
Open the hypocritical—government websites with links to actual porn are being exempt—OAT and its membership processes and rulings this year up to public review.
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- Name:
- Free Oiwan Lam!
- Category:
- Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes
- Description:
- http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/author/oiwan/
Will Moss @ Imagethief:
"OK, technically she isn't in jail. But the Global Voices editor is at the center of a somewhat ridiculous enforcement action by Hong Kong's Obscene Articles Tribunal."
She's not in jail or digging up the USD50,000 potential maximum fine she faces—yet.
Open the hypocritical—government websites with links to actual porn are being exempt—OAT and its membership processes and rulings this year up to public review.
Free... (read more) - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
Contact Info
- Email:
- Website:
- http://freeoiwanlam.blogspot.com
- Office:
- http://www.interlocals.net/?q=node/9
- Location:
- 9/F #365 Hennessy Road
Recent News
- News:
- 07/18:
Oiwan has now set up a PayPal link on her English site to help with her defense:
http://www.interlocals.net/?q=node/9
And there's a blog for the campaign:
http://freeoiwanlam.blogspot.com
or for those behind Great Firewalls in China or elsewhere:
http://www.pkblogs.com/freeoiwanlam
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It's not all horrible: Oiwan's case is ineligible for judicial review (ie. circumventing the Obscene Articles Tribunal), she's gotten a judge known to rule conservatively and who in the Chinese University student magazine and Ming Pao cases failed to declare exactly which articles were 'indecent' prior to his rulings, and her lawyers estimate the 4-5 days in court with simultaneous translation will cost her USD 10,000.
The good news, Oiwan was interviewed by BBC Radio today (July 17) and she can be heard about a quarter the way in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/fivelive_aod.shtml?fivelive/podsandblogs