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Major Nidal Hassan is a US military psychiatrist of Arab origins who went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 soldiers. He is now facing the charges of premeditated murder. "Psychiatrist or Psychotic?" ask Egyptian bloggers.
Global Voices Our new "Threatened Voices" project continues to expand its database on harassed and threatened bloggers around the world thanks to helpful contributors.
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A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them.Learn more · Contact us · Submit a report · Advocacy Home
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The 5th Chinese blogger conference took place last weekend in a rural county Lianzhou in northern part of Guangzhou province. Despite the inconvenient traffic, there were around 150 participants from China and overseas attended the conference.
Global Voices Bad news for arrested Azerbaijani bloggers Adnan and Emin: 2-year prison sentences
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As many of their supporters feared, and on the same day as a round table on the case against two detained video blogging youth activists, a court in Baku, Azerbaijan, earlier passed sentence on Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. The verdict and first reaction spread on Twitter.
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As the children's show Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, premiering its new season today, one Muppet named Kami, on its South African edition, continues to help combat and raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.
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Iran's Green Movement opposition organized mass street protests on the 4th of November that were were met with a violent crackdown by security forces. As has come to be expected, Iranian citizen media didn't miss a beat, recording "history" on their mobile phones.
Global Voices A new collaborative mapping project to track threats and arrests against bloggers worldwide, by Global Voices Advocacy.
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Global Voices The tourism industry in Thailand receives another blow.
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A TV documentary aired on British TV last September about some of the issues hounding Thailand tourism generated an intense debate in the cyberspace. Here is a sample of reactions in the Thailand blogosphere.
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On Oct. 30, after a few days of alarming reports on an outbreak of respiratory illness in western Ukraine, the first swine flu-related death was confirmed, and PM Tymoshenko ordered Ukraine's schools closed and public gatherings banned for at least three weeks.
Global Voices After all the hubbub in Egypt over artificial hymens for faking virginity, one blogger went and bought one to see what the fuss was about.
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So much was said and written about the artificial virginity hymen kit - that Egyptian male blogger Mohamed Al Rahhal just had to buy one. Marwa Rakha brings us the story.